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

FYI: In BCD the Record Mark (A82) and the Group Mark (BA8421) were separate control characters.
As shown, there should be no problem in representing their symbols in Unicode plain text.

Erkki

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Lähettäjä: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] Puolesta Julian Bradfield
Lähetetty: 15. heinäkuuta 2011 23:32
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Aihe: Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

On 2011-07-15, Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com> wrote:
> 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?

And of course there are other ways: if the Record Mark John is
referring to is the same as the Group Mark in the table I find, it's
actually ≡⃒ , not =⃒ (these two using U+20D2 COMBINING LONG VERTICAL
LINE OVERLAY); the latter could also be represnted as ǂ, the palatal
click).

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