Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Blocks.[3]
Quadrant upper left and lower left and lower right
U+259A
▚
Quadrant upper left and lower right
U+259B
▛
Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower left
U+259C
▜
Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower right
U+259D
▝
Quadrant upper right
U+259E
▞
Quadrant upper right and lower left
U+259F
▟
Quadrant upper right and lower left and lower right
Font coverageedit
Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Block Elements range.[4]Unifont also contains all the glyphs.[5] Among the fonts in widespread use,[6][7] full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol.[4]
The glyphs in Block Elements each share the same character width in most supported fonts, allowing them to be used graphically in row and column arrangements. However, the block does not contain a space character of its own and ASCII space may or may not render at the same width as Block Elements glyphs, as those characters are intended to be used exclusively for monospaced fonts.
^"Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". Archived from the original on 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
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block, elements, unicode, block, containing, square, block, symbols, various, fill, shading, used, along, with, block, elements, drawing, characters, shade, characters, terminal, graphic, characters, these, used, filling, regions, screen, portraying, drop, sha. Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading Used along with block elements are box drawing characters shade characters and terminal graphic characters These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows Its block name in Unicode 1 0 was Blocks 3 Block ElementsRangeU 2580 U 259F 32 code points PlaneBMPScriptsCommonSymbol setsBlock fillsAssigned32 code pointsUnused0 reserved code pointsUnicode version history1 0 0 1991 22 22 3 2 2002 32 10 Unicode documentationCode chart Web pageNote 1 2 Contents 1 Character table 2 Font coverage 3 Compact table 4 History 5 Related symbols 6 See also 7 ReferencesCharacter table editCode Result DescriptionU 2580 Upper half blockU 2581 Lower one eighth blockU 2582 Lower one quarter blockU 2583 Lower three eighths blockU 2584 Lower half blockU 2585 Lower five eighths blockU 2586 Lower three quarters blockU 2587 Lower seven eighths blockU 2588 Full blockU 2589 Left seven eighths blockU 258A Left three quarters blockU 258B Left five eighths blockU 258C Left half blockU 258D Left three eighths blockU 258E Left one quarter blockU 258F Left one eighth blockU 2590 Right half blockU 2591 Light shadeU 2592 Medium shadeU 2593 Dark shadeU 2594 Upper one eighth blockU 2595 Right one eighth blockU 2596 Quadrant lower leftU 2597 Quadrant lower rightU 2598 Quadrant upper leftU 2599 Quadrant upper left and lower left and lower rightU 259A Quadrant upper left and lower rightU 259B Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower leftU 259C Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower rightU 259D Quadrant upper rightU 259E Quadrant upper right and lower leftU 259F Quadrant upper right and lower left and lower rightFont coverage editFont sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Block Elements range 4 Unifont also contains all the glyphs 5 Among the fonts in widespread use 6 7 full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol 4 The glyphs in Block Elements each share the same character width in most supported fonts allowing them to be used graphically in row and column arrangements However the block does not contain a space character of its own and ASCII space may or may not render at the same width as Block Elements glyphs as those characters are intended to be used exclusively for monospaced fonts Compact table editBlock Elements 1 Official Unicode Consortium code chart PDF 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E FU 258x U 259x Notes 1 As of Unicode version 15 1History editThe following Unicode related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Block Elements block Version Final code points a Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document1 0 0 U 2580 2595 22 to be determined 3 2 U 2596 259F 10 L2 00 159 da Cruz Frank 2000 03 31 Supplemental Terminal Graphics for UnicodeL2 00 115R2 Moore Lisa 2000 08 08 Motion 83 M24 Minutes Of UTC Meeting 83L2 00 329 N2265 Whistler Ken 2000 09 19 Proposal for Terminal Graphic Symbols in the BMPL2 01 050 N2253 Umamaheswaran V S 2001 01 21 Resolution M39 20 Terminal Graphic Symbols Minutes of the SC2 WG2 meeting in Athens September 2000 Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and namesRelated symbols editU 220E END OF PROOF in the Mathematical Operators Unicode block U 25A0 BLACK SQUARE in the Geometric Shapes Unicode block See also editTombstone typography Box drawing character Semigraphics or pseudographics Other Unicode blocks containing semigraphic characters Box Drawing Geometric Shapes Symbols for Legacy Computing Code page 437 the character set of the original IBM PC Unicode symbols DingbatReferences edit Unicode character database The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2023 07 26 Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2023 07 26 3 8 Block by Block Charts PDF The Unicode Standard version 1 0 Unicode Consortium a b Font Support for Unicode Block Block Elements Retrieved 2016 03 13 GNU Unifont Glyphs Unifoundry com Retrieved 2013 11 12 Mac OS X 10 5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS Archived from the original on 2013 01 07 Retrieved 2008 09 17 Common fonts to all versions of Windows amp Mac equivalents Retrieved 2008 09 17 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Block Elements amp oldid 1170188095, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
