Comment by panzi
Do symbols for legacy computing work with it? Especially the 1/8ths vertical/horizontal blocks?
Do symbols for legacy computing work with it? Especially the 1/8ths vertical/horizontal blocks?
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
Reading the flags one: Unscii has font coverage, if you want to try that out on the emulators whose fonts were problems.
Given that it's drawing TUI windows, the MouseText characters for doing that very thing on the Apple IIe would seem even more pertinent.
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