RE: American English translation of character names

From: Jim Allan (jallan@smrtytrek.com)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 12:52:37 EST

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    Arcane Jill wrote:

    > You are saying that ... in the
    > days of punched cards ... there was an EBCDIC code whose meaning was
    > LOGICAL NOT. So far so good - but how would such a character code have
    > been /written/? Was it written like the U+00AC glyph is now?

    Yes, exactly the same.

    It appeared in original EBCDIC in 1964. See
    http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/stand.html#ebcdic

    It appeared on IBM mainframe terminal keyboards. It still appears on
    terminals in an EBCDIC environment.

    Jim Allan

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