This is a 25-character wide bold rectangle that is subdivided into a left part (about a quarter) and a right part (about three quarters) with some additional non-bold stuff in the two parts. ┏┯━┳━━━━━━━┓ ┃│☺┃ ╲ ╭╮ ┃ ┃╰─┨ ╳ ╰╯ ┃ ┗━━┻━━━━━━━┛ 0123456789abcdef01234 From looking at the Unicode tables and the above my conclusion is that using Unicode characters rather than plain ASCII can make figures look a lot better, but it's not really possible to express significantly different shapes: like ASCII, Unicode is limited to (mostly) straight horizontal vertical lines. This is a PHP file that sends out a "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" header but is otherwise plain text. Iljitsch van Beijnum