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Missing Pico-8 P8SCII characters #73

Open oshaboy opened 8 months ago

oshaboy commented 8 months ago

Turns out I completely missed the existence of these. I thought they were Japanese punctuation marks.

oshaboy commented 8 months ago

Actually there seem to be a few more missing characters (the underlined hex digits at the top). Though I am not sure if they are printable in the latest version. You can see them in the editor tho.

oshaboy commented 8 months ago

image Apparently the top characters are for mazes.

RebeccaRGB commented 8 months ago

U+1FBA8 🮨 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER CENTRE TO MIDDLE LEFT AND MIDDLE RIGHT TO LOWER CENTRE U+1FBA9 🮩 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER CENTRE TO MIDDLE RIGHT AND MIDDLE LEFT TO LOWER CENTRE

oshaboy commented 7 months ago

So I did more research on these characters. Zep's original intention was that these are for mazes. The underlined superscript characters were placeholders and cannot be printed on newer versions of Pico-8. Instead they were replaced with some strange control codes.

I feel like the pico-8 maze characters connect differently from U+1FBA8 and U+1FBA9 so they should be encoded as distinct PUA characters. Though I understand why you wouldn't want that.

I don't think the underlined ones are worth encoding I don't think any Pico-8 game actually used them.

oshaboy commented 7 months ago

Oh you already added the underlined placeholders. 🙃

You're fast.