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Those "weird" characters has been used for ASCII and ANSI based text-mode user interfaces since the dawn of UI as a concept.
by kchr 6y ago
Those "weird" characters has been used for ASCII and ANSI based text-mode user interfaces since the dawn of UI as a concept.
- ken 6y agoUnicode’s box drawing seems to go way beyond ANSI, though, and PETscii was only added very recently (IIRC).
- buckminster 6y agoBeing pedantic, those box drawing characters are neither ASCII nor ANSI. They are part of the original IBM PC character sets. Windows refers to them as the OEM character sets.