It's funny that the character got recognized as U+12017 CUNEIFORM SIGN AB2 TIMES BALAG. This reminds me of an early OCR program called Cuneiform.
I believe that the intent was to depict U+225C ≜ DELTA EQUAL TO = equal to by definition Leo On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:46 AM, David Starner <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 before; I'm pretty sure it's > overprinting, but I'm not sure of what. I've attached an image to this > email message. > > The text says "The metasymbol 𒀗 signifies syntactic equivalence, > while the colon > signifies concatenation and the semicolon ; signifies selection between > adjacent elements." > > -- > Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. >
