On 2011-07-15, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
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). -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
