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A comment on Spark.

Re:Spark by premchai21 on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @03:40AM (#3237553)
I'm curious: is there a reason U+2584 LOWER HALF BLOCK is missing from the character set, which otherwise contains the progression from U+2581 to U+2587?

Edit: U+2588 seems like an obvious candidate as well.

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Re:Spark by tome on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @08:51AM (#3238157)
No idea. Here they are for everyone's use:

ticks = " ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█"

I've included SPACE as well. That's an obvious missing one.

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Re:Spark by bodyfour on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:49AM (#3238597)
At least in my OS/X terminal using the "Monaco" font (which I think is the default), the final one (U+2588) doesn't descend as far as the rest of the characters. It really produces some ugly output with that one included.

Including the space character means that you lose a nice baseline if the input is fairly sparse, so it looks less like a bar graph and more like just some random blobs.

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Re:Spark by carterschonwald on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:30PM (#3239418)
Yes, on the mac it seems only menlo renders it correctly, (vs all the other fixed with font families that bork the rendering in various ways)
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