What means
It supplied a ready-made pattern for the display.
Ohio Scientific’s 540 video board, which drove the computer’s display, used a character-generator chip that stored dot patterns for screen cells. In its March/April 1978 journal, the company describes built-in graphics characters for plotting and video games.
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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
- osi · e9 · graphics · plotting · gaming · screen
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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macOS
HTML
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\1CC8BMicrosoft Word for Windows
As of 2026-09-28, type
1CC8B, then press Alt+X. OSI’s E9 was its old machine code. If blank, choose a font that includes it.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CC8B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%8B
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On screen
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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.