What means
It turned one text character into a tiny screen-drawing tile. This pattern lights cells 1, 4, and 6 of an eight-cell grid, two across and four down; adjacent tiles can make a larger picture. The Unicode proposal maps it to Kaypro’s character set.
Kaypro computers running CP/M, an early operating system, could store block graphics in text files. In 1984, a Kaypro drawing program used the same 2 4 grid for screen art. Unicode’s 2021 proposal preserved the patterns for file conversion, emulation, and text-mode graphics.
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Questions people ask
1Why does this character appear as a box?
A replacement box means the active font or text renderer has no drawing for it. The text can still contain the correct octant character.
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- kaypro · pixel tile · semigraphics · terminal graphics · 2x4 graphics
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜴠\1CD20𜴠 as a hexadecimal numeric character reference.\1CD20 in a CSS string; the final space ends the hexadecimal escape.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.