Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

From: Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:53:49 -0700

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John W Kennedy <jwkenne_at_attglobal.net> wrote:
> Those of us old enough to recall IBM's old 6-bit BCDIC code (a retronym -- it was known as "BCD" in its own day) will remember the overstricken b/ character used to represent the Substitute Blank character, the overstricken =| character for Record Mark, and others. (Annoyingly enough, these and some other BCDIC graphics are not covered by Unicode, which must be a problem for historians.)

There's U+2422 BLANK SYMBOL ␢ and U+241E SYMBOL FOR RECORD SEPARATOR ␞
Are they not enough?

Leo
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