Re: New computing character from 1961

2013-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
It looks like an overprinting of the 3 characters = ( ) Le 19 avr. 2013 09:57, David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com a écrit : http://archive.org/details/bitsavers_sdcjovialTerDec61_12294913 is a 1961 programming book on the programming language Jovial. On page 7ff is a character I've never seen

Re: New computing character from 1961

2013-04-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
Given the displayed image resolution, there's no way to conclude that a new character is needed. It could as well be an existing lozenge or an overprint if = on top of (), or a triangle above an equal sgn, or something else (already encoded or not). Nobody can conclude this is a distinctive