History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of

Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by throwaway2048 on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:09AM (#20651280)

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Your font rendering mileage may vary.

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by dfeojm-zlib on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:42AM (#20651839)

Oh, the days of the ASCII Code page 437

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by chias on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:18AM (#20652002)

Whoa, sweet Dwarf Fortress graphics pack ;)

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by Filligree on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:45AM (#20653760)

Fun fact: DF contains a CP437-to-Unicode mapping function, to let the text-mode output work on modern terminals.

It's still all CP437 internally.

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by mixmastamyk on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:13AM (#20651976)

That was in the 80s and had a large number of box drawing characters.

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by cschmidt on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:57AM (#20653840)

There is a proposal to add some of the old missing box drawing characters to Unicode, in a section called "Graphics for Legacy Computing":

They have been implemented recently in the Pragmata Pro font I use, which seems to just keep adding glyphs

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by kijin on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:36AM (#20652724)

Unicode still contains a large number of box drawing characters. Some are broken into three, or even four parts.

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Re:History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of | by mywacaday on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:28AM (#20653296)

I remember copying a random maze generator from a magazine that used a lot of these on a C64, fun times!

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