IBM 1620 invalid character symbol

[Magnus Bodin ☀ via Unicode]

It's like if IBM invented the tofu of some sort.

(Well, this is something different but similiar)

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Leo Broukhis via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620#Invalid_character)
> describes the "invalid character" symbol (see attachment) as a Cyrillic Ж
> which it obviously is not.
>
> But what is it? Does it deserve encoding, or is it a glyph variation of an
> existing codepoint?
>
> The question is somewhat prompted by
>
> 2BFF 1 HELLSCHREIBER PAUSE SYMBOL
>
> in the pipeline, although I learned about both earlier today within a few
> minutes of one another.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
>
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