What ╺ means
Use it to start a thick horizontal line.
Imagine each character sitting in an equally sized rectangular space, called a cell. ╺ leaves the left half blank and draws from the centre to the right edge. In ╺, the middle piece continues the line and the last piece ends it. These are drawing components, not an arrow or punctuation.
Why do the pieces sometimes fail to join?
The font and spacing must let their edges meet.
Use a monospaced font, where characters have equal widths, that supports these line symbols. Extra spacing or a substitute font can leave gaps or uneven strokes. Repeating ╺ alone leaves a blank half-cell between strokes; use for the continuous middle of a line.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Two heavy half-lines meeting at the boundary between cells.
Heavy line with its ends at cell centres.
Progress bar in the style of Python's Rich library.
Worth knowing
- Box-drawing characters let text screens display frames and diagrams before 1990. The IBM PC’s character set included line pieces; early videotex services also distinguished thin and thick lines.
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Collections with ╺
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How to type or find ╺
- Search it as
- heavy right line · box drawing · half line · text diagram
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
╺CSS
\257ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
╺
HTML hex
╺
CSS content
content: "\257A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%95%BA
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.