What means
It supplies one curved part of a larger screen drawing.
On the Sharp MZ-700 in the early 1980s, was code BA in the European display table. That computer had no graphics commands, so programs assembled pictures from fixed shapes stored in its character memory. BA was the display code, separate from the keyboard input code, so software translated between the two.
In 2022, Unicode's proposal for legacy-computing characters said encoding them would preserve round-trip conversion of old data and support emulators and text-mode graphics.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- sharpscii · mz-700 graphics · circle arc · screen tile · pseudo-graphics
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.