What means
It lights four of eight cells in a text-screen tile. A Kaypro program combined block octants into pixels by placing the matching 24 tile at each screen position; neighboring cells formed pictures, borders, or game screens. “Octant” refers to the eight small blocks, arranged in two columns and four rows.
By 1983, a Kaypro 10 guide described drawing by setting pixels in these graphics cells. Unicode added this pattern in 2024 to preserve it as portable text for Kaypro conversion and emulation.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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- semigraphics · kaypro graphics · text graphics · graphics character · pixel block · octant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜶝\1CD9DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.