Use Unicode braille characters for line drawing

tenox7 / ttyplot

a realtime plotting utility for terminal/console with data input from stdin

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Use Unicode braille characters for line drawing #57

Open tenox7 opened 2 years ago

tenox7 commented 2 years ago

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

check gotop bashtop etc

hartwork commented 10 months ago

edgar-bonet commented 10 months ago

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?

jwilk commented 9 months ago

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