Re:The Tao of Unicode Sparklines
by rbanffy on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:14PM
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It really depends on the font choice and terminal engine. Some terminals (such as VTE, which is the base for most Gnome terminals) renders blocks and boxes without using a font, which makes them perfectly fit the character cell.
With Unicode 16, which is coming out very shortly, there will be 2x4 mosaics (originally identified on Kaypro CP/M machines), which have about half the vertical resolution of the blocks, but twice the time resolution (and allows us to leave Braille for what it was intended for).
After this post came out, Unicode 13 introduced Teletext 2x3 mosaics and their "smoothed" versions (with diagonal lines). Those are also useful for sparklines.
With Unicode 16, which is coming out very shortly, there will be 2x4 mosaics (originally identified on Kaypro CP/M machines), which have about half the vertical resolution of the blocks, but twice the time resolution (and allows us to leave Braille for what it was intended for).
After this post came out, Unicode 13 introduced Teletext 2x3 mosaics and their "smoothed" versions (with diagonal lines). Those are also useful for sparklines.