Unicode output for more granular progress

[a-j-wood]

From Alexander Petrossian in 2016. Correspondence summary:

Thanks for your email. At the moment PV will not support Unicode output
because its display routines are not aware of wide characters. I like the
suggestion and will put it on the TODO list.

Do you have a web site I can link to in the acknowledgements section of the
documentation?

Sent from: Alexander Petrossian (PAF)

Andrew,
please thank you for this fantastic tool (pv).

Have you considered using unicode progress characters to show a bit more precise progress bar?
Modern terminals can do it.
Maybe not default, if you feel so, just a small option.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/beta/nameslist/n_2580.html
2589 ▉ LEFT SEVEN EIGHTHS BLOCK
258A ▊ LEFT THREE QUARTERS BLOCK
258B ▋ LEFT FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK
258C ▌ LEFT HALF BLOCK
258D ▍ LEFT THREE EIGHTHS BLOCK
258E ▎ LEFT ONE QUARTER BLOCK
258F ▏ LEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK

Read about dialog; but, as you yourself write, thats pretty 'convoluted' (looked it up in a dictionary, I'm Russian and haven't known the word).

PAF

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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:48:58 +0300
From: ""Александр Петросян (PAF)""
To: Andrew Wood
Subject: Re: Message from Contact Form (PV)

Andrew,
no big hurry. Just a thought ;)