How can I draw pretty box with .ttf font?

[underww]

I'm trying to draw a box with sf::text with .ttf font and unicode.
but the result is a bit ugly, here's a screenshot and it's just one text object.
some fonts look better but most fonts don't look good.

I know I can draw a box with sf::Rectangle, but I want to draw it with font for some reason.
and I've tried to turn on/off the font smoothing, but it didn't help.

[Hapax]

What does it mean to draw a pretty box with a font?
Are you attempting to draw a box using box edge-type characters?
Why are you using text instead of other apt methods?
Are you trying to draw ASCII art? (consider this)

[underww]

Yes, I'm trying to draw ASCII art with virtual console using SFML
This is what I want to do (the same font and size in notepad)

[Hapax]

You're right. SFML and Notepad don't render fonts identically.
Sometimes, though, SFML's way might just be better


That said, if you scale up the text inside the program (or just resize the window), gaps can appear between the characters.
Are you rendering at a size where the text's texture's pixels match the window's pixels? If you need to increase its size, try first rendering to a render texture and scaling that.

[underww]

Yeah, but box-drawing characters in many fonts don't have the gaps between themselves unlike other symbols.
the fonts I tested also don't have gaps naturally.

I don't scale the text but, the gaps is variable when I change font size.
sometimes it looks perfect with some size, but it doesn't generally.
so I thought it's because of some rendering problem in SFML.