U+256A Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double
U+256A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Box Drawing in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+256A forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment. Box-drawing characters therefore typically only work well with monospaced fonts.
In graphical user interfaces, these characters are much less useful as it is more simple and appropriate to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs. However, they are still useful for command-line interfaces and plaintext comments within source code.
Some recent embedded systems also use proprietary character sets, usually extensions to ISO 8859 character sets, which include box-drawing characters or other special symbols.
Other types of box-drawing characters are block elements, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters; these can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9578 |
| UTF-8 | E2 95 AA |
| UTF-16 | 25 6A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 6A |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%95%AA |
| HTML hex reference | ╪ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ╪ |
| HTML named entity | ╪ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A2 A6 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | F9 EA |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A2 A6 |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A8 6E |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A8 6E |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | BC |
| Adobe Glyph List | SF540000 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE | |
| FORMS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE | |
| Box Drawing | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| ✘ | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| ✘ | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Yes | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double | |
| R |