IBM 1620 invalid character symbol

Tue Sep 26 02:47:27 CDT 2017

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin at acssoft.de>
wrote:

> For me, the glyph looks like the proposed and accepted U+2BF0 ERIS FORM ONE
> (see pipeline; proposed as U+2BBA in L2/16-173R).
>

That's a perfect graphical match. I propose an annotation "Also an early
IBM invalid character symbol".

> - Karl
>
> --
> Am Dienstag, 26. September 2017 um 06:48 schrieb Leo Broukhis via Unicode:
>
> >> 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?
>
>
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