Talk:Box-drawing characters

message: What do "box drawing characters" have to do with the Web?  Also, why does the description say what they are useless for instead of what they are useful for?  Seems to me that the original editor wanted to define these from an extremely narrow perspective. 195.82.190.108 (talk) 00:46, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that you are selectively putting too much emphasis on particular sentences.  It begins by saying where they are useful ("in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes.") and then goes on to say that they are not so useful in GUI applications.  That point is a bit more forceful than I would like but it isn't wrong.  As for the web, that only receives a passing mention, which indeed it should, but it makes its purpose perfectly clear in my eyes.  If user comments are restricted to unformatted plain text then the box drawing characters allow for boxes or rules to be drawn in user comments.  Maybe this isn't used so much in actual posts but I've certainly seen it in signatures. CrispMuncher (talk) 14:15, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad description

message: How come the image, which supposedly is able to show the characters properly even if the browser can't, doesn't show any difference between the thick and the thin versions of the characters? 136.163.203.3 10:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The image

message: Unicode_Box_Drawing_(2500-257F)_Revised.gif is a screenshot I took to show how it should look.  I think the font being used is DejaVu Sans Mono.  I'll try to figure out how to put the image on the page, but I'm pretty new here... Notostraca 19:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Still not satisfactory for showing the box drawing characters, because of lack of spacing (example: Row 2540. Where does each character start and end?). I’ve created a new image to replace it. --Shlomi Tal ☜ 10:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Here's a better screenshot: 

message: Should things like the ZX81/Sinclair pseudographics be mentioned here (e.g., for the dithering patterns in the character set)? 
--BACbKA 22:59, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  also, what about characters like ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ (unicode 0x2581 to 0x2588) ?--TiagoTiago 20:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

text: They're called Block Elements.  Added. EdC (talk) 02:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sinclair stuff 

message: I wanted to use it in some french page, but it does only work as wanted (It works in edition mode but not in visualisation one, this is, it does depend of the zoom level!)
Text is not always as large as drawing!
I wonder if any alterative exist.
* With tables, I do not know how to let the table open to the right
* With svg, I do not know how to edit svg file by wiki.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicateur_d%27ordre_des_octets
01234567890123456789
 ╓─┬──┬X─┬──┬──────i────┬─
 ║·╎EF╎BB╎BF╎F0·A3·8E·B4╎...
 ║··EF·BB·BF╎F0·A3·8E·B4╎...
 ║┴┴EF BB BF╎F0 A3 8E B4╎...
 ║  EF BB BF╎F0 A3 8E B4╎...
 ╙─────i────┴──────X────┴───
 ┴┴┴𝟹𝙱·𝟹𝙱·𝟹𝟹╎𝙱𝟹·𝟹𝙱·3𝟹·𝙱3┴𝟹𝙱
012345667890123456789
::Hey there. You didn't remember to sign your post with four tildes (~~~~), so I can't tell if you're still having this problem. If you still are, maybe I can help:
:* The easiest way to solve your problem is to edit the svg, or Scalable Vector Graphic. It's designed to be re-sized. First, choose the "edit source" link, to go to edit mode. Now, where it says “”, change that to “”. (The number is usually somewhere from 50 to about 200).
:** If you wanted to increase your font size: do this (also in edit mode): “Big Text” to get “Big Text”. There are ways to get it smaller or larger, but you probably don't want that anyway.
:** Remember you can caption a picture. To do that, change “” to “” to get:
:::(The “ |thumb|right| ” part tells it to use a thumbnail and align to the right)
:* You also said “With tables, I do not know how to let the table open to the right”. But I wasn't able to understand what you meant :/
::Your problem is more of a coding problem than something that can be helped here. The Help Desk (in English en Français) or the Picture Tutorial (in English en Français) might be better places to go.
::Cheers. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 12:14, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Use

message: http://i.imgur.com/CPsHqYN.png 124.188.145.86 (talk) 02:11, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: https://i.imgur.com/Hz272Vb.png It still looks a bit busted to me, but I have no power to change it, since its hidden in the source? TheJonyMyster (talk) 16:11, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice work, Picasso. 

message: Why the article title is "Box-drawing character" and not ""Box-drawing characters"?
This looks just plain wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.66.226.247 (talk) 22:51, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not "Box-drawing characters" (plural)? 

message: I have reason to believe that box-drawing characters were around long before computers. Here is a book from the 1470's (Regiomontanus's "Kalender"), which uses what appear to be box-drawing characters in its tables: [] 2601:18A:C500:C00:40B4:7EC2:17AC:6153 (talk) 06:32, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that is a great example of it being used for movable type. Spitzak (talk) 20:43, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why limit it to computing? 

message: The "Historical" subsection says "Some of these sets, such as Commodore's PETSCII, include box-drawing symbols with no corresponding Unicode character", but many of these may have been recently added to Unicode in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block... AnonMoos (talk) 17:23, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs to be updated? 

message: you reverted my edit with the rationale that the fullwidth vertical bar does not redirect here. That's not what I said in my edit summary, I said that the halfwidth vertical bar redirects here, or to be more precise  and that one does redirect here (￨). In fact, your edit summary is wrong about that anyway.  (the fullwidth veritcal bar) does redirect here (│). I hope I also demonstrated that while, yes "there is no half/full variations of box drawing" this character has both a fullwidth and a halfwidth version. Nickps (talk) 11:19, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought you were talking about the  character Spitzak (talk) 13:32, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that makes sense. I should have made it clearer since they look the same. Sorry about that and for the tone of my original message. Nickps (talk) 14:11, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halfwidth vertical bar