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by ThePherocity 5055 days ago
That's how we used to make GUIs. Miss those days.
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Close :) That was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 (or the Unix equivalent I guess). I used the Unicode symbols that roryokane mentioned above, because it has more options for the height of a block (not just half-blocks). You can get Unicode versions of the older drawing symbols from this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Latin_character_sets_%2...