Re: Terminal Graphics Draft 2

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 12 1998 - 09:01:04 EDT


Frank da Cruz wrote on 1998-10-11 23:32 UTC:
> > U+235C APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL CIRCLE UNDERBAR.
>
> Well I'll be darned -- that's it exactly, at least in appearance. So
> goodbye to this chracter from the proposal. (And thanks for spotting it --
> I don't know how I could have missed it.)
>
> The fate of "large lowercase a with underbar" is also doubtful, unless
> someone from SNI or from the Siemens Nixdorf user community provides a
> reason to keep it. Principle is one thing, utility is another.

How about

  U+2376 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL ALPHA UNDERBAR

In many lowres fonts, a small alpha and one of the common variants of
writing a small latin a are indistinguishable.

Does this set try to cover all symbols needed for APL?

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
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