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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":

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17435r-terminals-prop.pdf

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

https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character

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