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Re:The Tao of Unicode Sparklines by samatman on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:37PM (#41363578)
That's uh. I dunno how to tell ya this Walter.

Coming your way in Unicode 16.0...

Allow me to introduce: BOTTOM LEFT JUSTIFIED UPPER RIGHT QUARTER BLACK CIRCLE!

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1FB00.p...

But wait! There's more! U+1CC31, UPPER CENTRE LEFT TWELFTH CIRCLE! And you best believe there's 11 more.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.p...

Re:The Tao of Unicode Sparklines by Joker_vD on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:46PM (#41363636)
I personally like getting more terminal-oriented ideographical symbols in the Unicode; what I don't like is yet another font variation for the basic Latin alphabet. Oh well.
Re:The Tao of Unicode Sparklines by zamadatix on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:06PM (#41364001)
I think there comes a point we should just embrace sixels so you can draw whatever it is you want to be shown in a character cell. That point is usually somewhere around here where it's "sure, I can copy it as normal text data but is it actually going to look like anything like it's supposed in a normal font anyways?". Even Windows is getting support for sixels now.
Re:The Tao of Unicode Sparklines by WalterBright on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:07PM (#41385775)
gag me with a spoon