What means
It filled a tile in a text-screen picture. A 1983 guide for the Kaypro 10 home computer explains how lit and blank cells in a two-column, four-row grid drew pictures. Numbering left to right, top to bottom, this pattern fills positions 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8; Kaypro's character table maps it to code F5.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
It can be a font issue: choose a font that includes this octant glyph. Microsoft's Cascadia Code added octant support in April 2024.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- octant · octant block · semigraphics · Kaypro graphics · terminal mosaic · 2x4 block
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜶦CSS
\1CDA6HTML
Write in HTML source; the browser decodes it as this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶦
HTML hex
𜶦
CSS content
content: "\1CDA6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%A6
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.