What means
It was one OSI graphics character for a screen cell.
Unicode’s 2021 proposal maps it to Ohio Scientific code 07. An Ohio Scientific journal from 1978 describes the display set’s graphics, plotting and game shapes; each character code selected a tiny screen pattern.
Unicode keeps this machine-specific shape as text so old computer data can retain it when exchanged.
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Questions people ask
1Why does this character show as an empty box?
Font support. If the chosen font has no glyph for this text character, the app substitutes its missing-character box.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- osi · osi graphics · character generator · retro computer symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜸄CSS
\1CE04Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE04";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%84
1
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.