What means
It makes one text cell act like a small pixel picture.
The 24 semigraphics grid divides a text cell into eight on/off areas. Programs reused these cells to save memory and drawing work; adjoining tiles built bigger pictures.
Where does this pattern come from?
It belongs to early computer mosaic graphics.
Japan's NEC PC-8001 used a related tile-based graphics method in 1979. This exact pattern is documented in the Kaypro graphics set: its reverse-video setting swapped character and screen colors. Unicode keeps the pattern, not that old display setting.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
The font may not include a drawing for this character. The text can still contain it; only a font with its glyph can show the pattern.
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- octant · semigraphics · pixel art · pixel block · text graphics · mosaic graphics · kaypro graphics
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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