What means
A ready-made tile for text-mode pictures.
The Sharp MZ European primary table maps its display slot to byte 9F. Its 8-by-8 character-ROM pattern supplied this upper-right arc as one screen cell.
Why preserve it?
To keep old display data portable.
Unicode's legacy-computing proposal aimed to let files round-trip between these computers and Unicode, and to help emulators reproduce their screens. Its source platforms date roughly from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Missing glyph. A font needs its own drawing for this character; otherwise the app may show an empty box. Microsoft said on April 30, 2024, its Cascadia Code update added more legacy-computing symbols, but fonts still need this exact glyph.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp · mz · circle · arc · graphics · semigraphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜰳\1CC33Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.