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nullhole 75 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Plain text has been around for decades and it’s he...

I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.

perilunar 75 days ago [–]

The box-drawing characters pre-date unicode though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

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