Comment 7 for bug 788757

Hello Cody, you've been busy!

The background to the box drawing characters is from Bug #724022: ("Wishlist: Enable use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font"). Plan was/is to make it really easy for people to get the leading/spacing/tiling of the character cells by adding the ANSI eleven box drawing characters and the four full-blocks. These are the characters that it's people are going to find in existing applications in their now workflow (thus avoiding needing to ask testers to copy-and-paste anything special or run anything strange).

It /is/ still possible to get the tiling/alignment in Unicode terminals (with more than the basic ANSI codepoints) by using the double box drawing characters mapped at ╠═╦╬╩═╣ and copying-and-pasting. But, the cunning plan to improve people's ease-of-testing in various environments by supplying the glyphs that the terminals in question already use somewhat failed. My apologies for that.

Your work on the script is excellent. I'll try and upload a patched versions of the Monospaces with those glyph remapped for easier testing.