Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by cosmos0072 on Monday June 16, 2025 @10:32AM (#44289927)

If you mean the Unicode glyphs listed at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements they are supported - you just need a display driver that can render them. For example, `twin --hw=xft` (it's the default) or `twin --hw=X11`, both with a font that contains them

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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by JdeBP on Monday June 16, 2025 @10:42AM (#44290039)

Xe means the Unicode block that is actually named "Symbols For Legacy Computing". It's not in the BMP. Some bloke named Bruce was doing TUI windows with scrollbars and sizer/menu boxes some years before TurboVision and code page 437. (-:

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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by panzi on Monday June 16, 2025 @02:05PM (#44291876)

Indeed I meant these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

I use them in some tiny hobby projects like these:

https://github.com/panzi/progress-pride-bar

https://github.com/panzi/bad-apple-terminal

https://github.com/panzi/js-unicode-bar-chart

https://github.com/panzi/js-unicode-plot

https://github.com/panzi/js-unicode-progress-bar

https://github.com/panzi/python-term-flags

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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by JdeBP on Monday June 16, 2025 @02:54PM (#44292374)

Reading the flags one: Unscii has font coverage, if you want to try that out on the emulators whose fonts were problems.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812026

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