What means
Five of the octant’s eight mini-blocks are filled. The suffix lists the occupied cells; adjacent tiles form semigraphics, larger images built from character-sized blocks.
How do octants make terminal graphics?
They turn text cells into tiny block graphics. Kaypro’s character table maps this pattern to C6 in its reverse-video set, which swaps light and dark. By 1984, Kaypro CP/M used the 24 grid to draw rough images with text; Unicode preserves these characters for conversion and emulation.
Why does block octant 23567 show as a box?
A font must support this octant glyph. Cascadia Code added octant support in 2024; without a compatible font, an app may show an empty box.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- octant · semigraphics · terminal art · text graphics
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜵧\1CD67Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.