The Box Drawing block comes from the line-drawing sets of DOS and terminal code pages. The pieces are designed to join seamlessly, but only in a monospaced font with no extra line spacing — in proportional fonts or with a line-height above 1, gaps appear.
Their East Asian Width is Ambiguous, so in terminals configured for CJK text they may take two columns and break alignment. Block Elements such as █ ▓ ▒ ░ add shading and bars for progress indicators and text charts.
┌──────────┬───────┐ │ Name │ Score │ ├──────────┼───────┤ │ Ada │ 92 │ │ Grace │ 88 │ └──────────┴───────┘
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