What means
It filled one of sixteen patches inside a character cell. The East German Z9001, introduced in 1984, used character blocks for pictures because its basic screen could not control individual pixels. Its manual shows the graphics mode. In 2021, a Unicode proposal mapped this tile from Robotron code DD for text conversion and emulators.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1Designed: repeat it as a sparse texture in fixed-width block art.
Questions people ask
1Why can vary across fonts?
It can. Unicode reference shapes are guidance, and fonts may vary; keep one font for aligned block art.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- robotron · z9001 · kc85/1 · kc87 · pseudographics · block
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜺝CSS
\1CE9DRobotron BASIC
To print the Robotron tile in BASIC, use
PRINT CHR$(221); 221 decimal (hex DD) is its old character code.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE9D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%9D
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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.