What means
“Frame” means one still image in an animation.
The paired characters and supply the two speckle-fill frames; software can switch between them to make the texture move.
How did the MZ-700 show it?
It came from the MZ-700’s European alternate character set.
Its character generator, a ROM chip for screen shapes, stored each design as an 88 pixel pattern.
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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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How to type or find
- Search it as
- mz-700 · sharp mz · alternate character set · retro computer graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜱇CSS
\1CC47MZ-700 BASIC, November 1982
Not a key: BASIC POKE (write to memory) placed display byte EF at D000; the alternate set must be enabled.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CC47";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%87
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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.