[CoryG89]

Wow, I can't believe I went this long without realizing there were these characters specifically intended to be used in text based interfaces. It's funny, these are almost like the opposite of emojis, text trying to be graphics, rather than graphics trying to be text.

[xtracto]

I remember playing with those ansí box characters back in the late 1990s... shit norton , microsoft and every other "graphical" ui for DOS used it.