What means
On HP 2640-series terminals, the Large set assembled headline-sized letters from separate shapes. A 1978 HP 2645A manual says each large character could take up to nine codes, with a utility to assemble a line; the source mapping places this piece in HP's Large set.
In plain text, matching pieces can form the same oversized lettering outside the old terminals. A font must contain these glyphs to draw them; otherwise this part may appear blank or as a missing-glyph box.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find
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- hp 2640 · hp terminal · large text · big letters · terminal headline · large character set · terminal text art · oversized letters
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜹐\1CE50Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.