I don’t know what your snippet is from, but the normally authoritative IBM manual, A26-5706-3, IBM 1620 CPU Model 1 (July, 1965) displays what is clearly the Cyrillic letter. Whether it should be regarded as that, or as a distinct character, is another question. See http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/1620/A26-5706-3_IBM_1620_CPU_Model_1_Jul65.pdf
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:48 AM, Leo Broukhis via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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> Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620#Invalid_character) describes the "invalid character" symbol (see attachment) as a Cyrillic Æ which it obviously is not.
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> But what is it? Does it deserve encoding, or is it a glyph variation of an existing codepoint?
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> The question is somewhat prompted by
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> 2BFF 1 HELLSCHREIBER PAUSE SYMBOL
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> in the pipeline, although I learned about both earlier today within a few minutes of one another.
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> Thanks,
> Leo
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