Re: Is there an IBM group mark symbol?

From: Jean-François Colson <jf_at_colson.eu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:31:14 +0100

Le 30/01/15 18:30, Jean-François Colson a écrit :
Le 30/01/15 17:55, Ken Shirriff a écrit :
> I'm writing about the IBM 1401 and there's one character from its
> character set that I couldn't find in Unicode: the group mark. The
> group mark is three horizontal lines with a vertical line through it
> (see attached image). This character is used in various books and
> publications, so it's a "real" symbol that is used in text. Would it
> make sense for me to submit a proposal to add this character?

Why not?
In the meantime, you could approximate it with U+2261 IDENTICAL TO
U+20D2 COMBINING LONG VERTICAL LINE OVERLAY: ≡⃒
Here is what that looks like in FreeMono: http://colson.eu/%e2%89%a1%e2%83%92.png
and in DejaVu Sans Mono: http://colson.eu/%e2%89%a1%e2%83%92..png

>
> Group mark image (from
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401#Character_and_op_codes):
>
>
> Thank you,
> Ken
>
>
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