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 -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] Puolesta Julian Bradfield Lähetetty: 15. heinäkuuta 2011 23:32 Vastaanottaja: unicode@unicode.org Aihe: Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal) On 2011-07-15, Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John W Kennedy <jwke...@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). -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
