Legacy Graphics Range for Char8.js

The Terminals Working Group proposed a new Unicode range earlier this month (Jan. 4, 2019) for the purpose of retrocomputing and emulation. As of version 1.1, the newly proposed glyphs are already included in the Char8.js library for generating 8-bit characters from Unicode.

Here’s a sample, rendering the new glyphs in double height using a 16 × 8 character matrix:

The proposed legacy graphics range, rendered at 8 x 16 using Char8.js

The proposed range incorporates glyphs from various legacy systems, including

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