Hexagon-drawing characters

[julian94]

Requirements

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Problem Description

Box-drawing characters are widely established and useful. It is however a lot harder to draw hexagons textually.

Example of current state of hexagon drawing:

  ______
 /      \
/        \______
\        /123456\
 \______/12345678\
 /123456\12345678/
/12345678\______/
\12345678/
 \______/

I think it's somewhat safe to assume that most people who want to draw/see hexagons in a terminal are also in the group of people who would use a nerd font. Myself particularly included.

Desired Solution

Ideally a set of hexagonal drawing characters would be added, supporting both flat-top and pointy-top hexagons.

Alternatives Considered

If the horizontal lines could be added using combining characters so that you can have two lines of text directly above one another, but with a dividing line straddling the border. That would be rather useful even for non-hexagon situations where you're space constrained.

Additional Context

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[panda667]

This is really interesting! I've never thought of this before, but it's a super good idea!

[ChiefMikeK]

Replace;
U+002F_SOLIDUS & U+005C_REVERSE_SOLIDUS with
U+2571 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT &
U+2572 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT
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