On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John W Kennedy <[email protected]> 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? Leo
