What means
It fills parts of one text cell to build a terminal mosaic.
An octant is one of eight parts of a character cell—the rectangle each text character occupies. Here, 2, 3, and 8 identify the filled parts, and adjacent tiles form larger pictures. Early terminals and home computers used blocks and lines for rough text graphics; Unicode's 2022 proposal extended that technique with a finer 24 grid.
Why does show as a box?
The selected font may not include its drawing. If appears blank or as a placeholder square, the underlying character is unchanged. Microsoft announced octant support in Cascadia Code in April 2024.
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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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- terminal graphics · text graphics · terminal mosaic · semigraphics · pseudo-pixel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜵶\1CD76Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.