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===DOS=== The [[hardware code page]] of the original IBM PC supplied the following box-drawing characters, in what [[DOS]] now calls [[code page 437]]. This subset of the Unicode box-drawing characters is thus included in [[WGL4]] and is far more popular and likely to be rendered correctly: {| class="wikitable" ! !0!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!9!!A!!B!!C!!D!!E!!F |- !B |β||β||β||β||β€||β‘||β’||β||β||β£||β||β||β||β||β||β |- !C |β||β΄||β¬||β||β||βΌ||β||β||β||β||β©||β¦||β ||β||β¬||β§ |- !D |β¨||β€||β₯||β||β||β||β||β«||βͺ||β||β||β||β||β||β||β |} The integral halves are also box drawing as they are used alongside 0xB3: {| class="wikitable" ! !4!!5 |- !F |β ||β‘ |} Their number is further limited to 28 on those code pages that replace the 18 characters that combine single and double lines, the left and right half blocks, as well as integral halves with other, usually alphabetic, characters (such as [[code page 850]]): {| class="wikitable" ! !0!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!9!!A!!B!!C!!D!!E!!F |- !B |β||β||β||β||β€|| || || || ||β£||β||β||β|| || ||β |- !C |β||β΄||β¬||β||β||βΌ|| || ||β||β||β©||β¦||β ||β||β¬|| |- !D | || || || || || || || || ||β||β||β||β|| || ||β |} Note: The non-double characters are the thin (light) characters (U+2500, U+2502), not the bold (heavy) characters (U+2501, U+2503). Some OEM DOS computers supported other character sets, for example the [[Hewlett-Packard]] [[HP 110]] / [[HP Portable]] and [[HP 110 Plus]] / [[HP Portable Plus]], where in a [[Modified HP Roman-8|modified version]] of the character set box-drawing characters were added in reserved areas of their normal [[HP Roman-8]] character set.<ref name="HP_1985_PP"/><ref name="HP_1986_PP"/> {| class="wikitable" ! <ref name="HP_1985_PP"/><ref name="HP_1986_PP"/> !0!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!9!!A!!B!!C!!D!!E!!F |- !8 | || || || ||β||β||β||β||β£||β©||β¦||β ||β||β||β¬|| |- !9 | ||β||β|| ||β||β||β||β||β€||β΄||β¬||β||β||β||βΌ||β |}
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