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@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ precompute this by ourselves:
 ``process_content_with_progress2()`` is better than the naive approach because
 now we have predictive information:
 
-50%|██████████████████████\                      \| 2/4 [00:00<00:00,  4.06it/s]
+50%|████████████\             \| 2/4 [00:00<00:00,  4.06it/s]
 
 However, the progress is not smooth: it increments in steps, 1 step being
 1 file processed. The problem is that we do not just walk through files tree,
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ Below we implement this approach using a manually updated ``tqdm`` bar, where
 And here is the result: a much smoother progress bar with meaningful
 predicted time and statistics:
 
-47%|██████████████████▍\                    \| 152K/321K [00:03<00:03, 46.2KB/s]
+47%|████████████\             \| 152K/321K [00:03<00:03, 46.2KB/s]
 
 
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