What means
It is a reusable graphics tile, not a pictogram. An octant divides a character cell into two columns and four rows; positions are numbered across each row, top to bottom. Adjacent tiles meet edge-to-edge to form a continuous mosaic.
Kaypro's 1980s graphics set stored this pattern at D6. Semigraphics means drawing pictures with text characters: each cell acted as eight on/off pixels, giving the text display a coarse graphics mode. Unicode's legacy mapping keeps it available to old files and emulators.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Your active font may lack the glyph. Cascadia Code added octant support in release 2404.23 in April 2024; choose a font that includes the set.
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HTML
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\1CD97Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CD97";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%97
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.