Chris Siebenmann
Blog post: A taxonomy of text output (from tools that want to be too clever) https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ProgramTextOutputTaxonomy
(In which I attempt to inventory all of the increasingly clever and disliked ways that command line programs have come up with to make their output less pleasant and harder for me to use. Dnf, you're on the list (near the bottom).)
Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/ProgramTextOutputTaxonomy

Mar 4 at 9:05pmWeb
Show threadStewart RussellMar 4
@cks So pipx's use of Unicode Braille characters as an activity meter is a hard no, then
Show threadChris SiebenmannMar 4
@scruss Oh, is that what they are. I'm okay with it, because pipx does it by the print/backspace/overprint method as far as I know. If you have to do a progress thing, that's inoffensive.
Show threadStewart RussellMar 4
@cks Yup, they are:
⣷ ⣯ ⣟ ⡿ ⢿ ⣻ ⣽ ⣾
all printed then overstruck
Show threadmirabilosMar 11

@scruss @cks on one line… bearable.

But some Issue9 programmers use it for multiline graphics now, which is a hard fail due to line spacing.