What means
It marks two lit cells in a six-part picture tile. A sextant divides one character cell into two columns and three rows.
Teletext sent pages of text and simple graphics to televisions. British teletext work began in the early 1970s; its 1976 specification described mosaic cells that touched or kept narrow background gaps.
Arrange tiles side by side to build a coarse picture. Unicode encoded separated forms as distinct text characters so teletext emulators (programs that imitate the old system) and files using the private-use area—a reserved range for custom characters—could preserve the format.
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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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- teletext · mosaic · sextant · blocks · graphics · separated
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜹲\1CE72Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.