Re: Origin of Ellipsis (was: RE: Empty set)

From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:24:28 -0700

On 9/13/2013 10:54 AM, Whistler, Ken wrote:
> Stephan Stiller noted:
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>> Maybe ... and the origin of the single-glyph ellipsis remains a mystery
>> to me.
> As Philippe surmised, it is a compatibility character, originally included
> in the Unicode 1.0 repertoire for cross-mapping to existing legacy
> encodings:
>
> Code Page 932: 0x81 0x64
> Code Page 949: 0xA1 0xA6
>
> And there are others, as well. It corresponds to IBM GCGID SV520000. (or SV440000)
which just pushes that question forward in time...
> --Ken
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