What means
Cells 2, 3, 5, and 8 are filled. A 24 grid numbers cells across each row: 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8. The pattern is one mosaic tile.
How did Kaypro use 24 block graphics?
It let text screens draw rough pictures.
By 1984, Kaypro computers running CP/M, an early operating system, used each 24 text cell as eight on/off spots, letting drawing programs sketch without addressing every screen pixel. This belongs to the block-mosaic family: quadrant tiles divide a cell into four parts, sextants into six, and octants into eight. Unicode preserves this Kaypro pattern as text.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Why does block octant-2358 show as a box?
It usually means the font or app lacks a glyph for . The square is a substitute marker; a font that supports this character can show the intended mosaic.
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How to type or find
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- octant · block mosaic · semigraphics · kaypro graphics · 2×4 graphics
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜶆\1CD86Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.