I'm always a little sad how poorly these can work:
I'm sure there's some amount of font twiddling and changing to a different terminal that'll fix this, but using these characters out of the box is problematic.
I'm sure there's some amount of font twiddling and changing to a different terminal that'll fix this, but using these characters out of the box is problematic.
https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png
I only mention this because I've used these to decorate tables in my own notes in the past. It's not really worth the trouble, but I remembered being impressed with how nice these characters looked at the time.
If anyone else wants to try it, paste this into a python REPL:
print("\u250f\u2501\u2513\n\u2503 \u2503\n\u2517\u2501\u251b")Eg, I get:
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VEX///8AAABVwtN+AAABc0lEQVRYw+2YwWrEIBCGR5EyhR6k5LCHsvUx9iQ6t30n6dL3LmxnHDdx
IadmoUtwAr/5M+OHRIUYgKeLJPKSlnvWBCu21yU8wJQgXuJrVRTFKH3YxdaoxUtXkiYIITAAKyJA
Tvm16kn0lANUl1ujVh7PJYzw3s+jCGBSxkXRSB92pjVq5fFcwghEhFIOpQBNnmw6x6ooisaX6gxo
oxZtV1ImcM4BEZIH4jr3JZmb4tFTdUdNNYuuKyEAa+2MQEJzxkX5ouqMpprFvoQR/ShYa+amivCK
8A3hK2IuYYS8C0qKcBRMxkXROKrOaKpZ7EsYITMiiPeK4InDRTFLH3ZZU81iX8IIWRclRXqDCFaW
z6FqbErawp3FrqTA3Uq1K2phxfYKq4v9r9trxH7i8/qzD8QHXwMxEAMxEAMxEAPxFIjdfF+M2Glc
tyO+94CQc+pGhJyWNyLkzL4RIX8ONiLk/8X/j+IB7+IBM/KAdfE8e2TbZv8FgJZ8r2PE1j8AAAAA
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