Re: Question regarding U+00A6 BROKEN BAR

From: Andreas Prilop (aprilop2007@trashmail.net)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 11:57:28 CST

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    On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Karl Pentzlin wrote:

    > What is the use of the BROKEN BAR, especially contrastive to the
    > VERTICAL LINE?

    Both "not sign" and "broken bar" are included in ISO-8859-1
    so that the character set is the same as EBCDIC (cp037).
    Read about the history of these characters in ASCII, Latin-1,
    and EBCDIC in
      Coded character sets, history and development
      by Charles E. Mackenzie
      Reading, Mass., 1980
      ISBN 0-201-14460-3



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