Ken Whistler wrote:
I would contend that encoding wildly popular and extensively used little pictographs as characters makes a whole lot more sense in the abstract than encoding box-drawing graphic pieces for completely obsolete screen technology ever did.
Though to be fair, the screen technology was a lot less "completely obsolete" in 1991, when the box drawing characters were encoded (Unicode 1.0), than it is today.
--Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
