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## Box-drawing

In terminal output, by default or with `--pretty=no`,
only ascii characters are used for drawing table borders.
In terminal (text) output, to minimise the risk of display problems for new users,
table borders are drawn using only ascii characters.

With `--pretty` or `--pretty=yes`, unicode box-drawing characters are used instead.
Also, tables will have outer borders and inter-column borders.
To minimise the risk of display problems for new users, we don't enable this by default.
Add `--pretty` or `--pretty=yes` to draw tables with prettier unicode box-drawing characters.
In pretty mode, tables will also have outer borders and inter-column borders.

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