alt Hacker NewsXe means the Unicode block that is actually named "Symbols For Legacy Computing". It's not in the BMP. Some bloke named Bruce was doing TUI windows with scrollbars and sizer/menu boxes some years before TurboVision and code page 437. (-:
Xe means the Unicode block that is actually named "Symbols For Legacy Computing". It's not in the BMP. Some bloke named Bruce was doing TUI windows with scrollbars and sizer/menu boxes some years before TurboVision and code page 437. (-:
Indeed I meant these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing
I use them in some tiny hobby projects like these:
https://github.com/panzi/progress-pride-bar
https://github.com/panzi/bad-apple-terminal
https://github.com/panzi/js-unicode-bar-chart
https://github.com/panzi/js-unicode-plot
https://github.com/panzi/js-unicode-progress-bar
https://github.com/panzi/python-term-flags