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https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.pdf
The Unicode Consortium just published a new set of Unicode characters and I am so incredibly excited — they are basically all for Terminals and ASCII art and game sprite and stuff! They are specifically designed for retrocomputing.
Amazing new little sprites (love the little racecars); large circle drawing characters; LOADS of new block characters for ASCII art; outlined letters, chess characters…
This is excellent.
Sep 14 · 3 months ago · 👍 skyjake, gritty, mifuyne, istvan, vi, pollux, arma, techbrokedad
💀 requiem [OP] · Sep 14 at 07:17:
Oh — just noticed there is an entire “large type pieces” block. Expect a LOT of great new ASCII art banners on Gemini as soon as typographers implement all this 🤩
🕹️ skyjake [...] · Sep 14 at 09:12:
This is indeed awesome. Those large icons composed of four characters seem like they have some flexibility for mixing different parts to make winky faces, animations and whatnot.
☕️ Aptor-theHobbit · Sep 14 at 16:03:
I am so excited for these new unicode characters. I am looking forward to using the circle segments in my next ASCII art, it is so difficult to draw a clean circle. Thanks @requiem
Ohh this looks promising. Thanks for submitting!
GNU Unifont is already updated to unicode 16.0
Very cool news! Thank you very much for calling attention to it.