Re: American English translation of character names

From: John Wilcock (john@tradoc.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 10:26:01 EST

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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:30:42 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> In this case, it's logicians who use U+00AC for "not", or at least
> some of them. It got into EBCDIC, I don't know exactly how, and from
> there into ISO 8859-1.

Wasn't it used for that purpose in APL?

John.

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