D. Starner <shalesller at writeme dot com> wrote: >> Perhaps a bit off topic but while U+FE73 is made completely useless >> by modern computer font techniques and would be only found in legacy >> data, the U+2500..U+257F block may have legitimate typographycal use >> nowadays, wouldn't it? > > Outside of monospaced text (which isn't really a legitimate > typographical use), you can't use it with variable length characters. > So it's possible to make limited line art with it, but unless you're > showing off, illustrations are much more useful.
I suspect Frank da Cruz will come along and say this much more eloquently, but: There is still a place in the world for monospaced plain text documents, and such documents certainly could benefit from the Box Drawing block, the Unicode equivalent of "ASCII art." Not everything is a Web page displayed in Arial with embedded graphics. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
