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Use Unicode braille characters for line drawing

Open tenox7 opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_Patterns

check gotop bashtop etc

tenox7 avatar Feb 23 '22 08:02 tenox7

See also https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot/issues/29#issue-426865051

hartwork avatar Nov 30 '23 23:11 hartwork

Another alternative could be using the Block Elements (U+2581 – Lower one eighth block) through (U+2588 – Full block). Compared to Braille Patterns, these characters offer:

  • better vertical resolution (8 lines per character cell instead of 4)
  • worse horizontal resolution (1 per cell instead of 2)
  • are easier to the eyes (continuously filled curve)

Should this be a separate feature request? Maybe it would be too much to support both?

edgar-bonet avatar Dec 01 '23 16:12 edgar-bonet

Since Unicode 13.0, there are also Teletext blocks available (3 lines × 2 columns, easy to eyes): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

jwilk avatar Jan 02 '24 10:01 jwilk