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From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Unicode 16 Is Out
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:42:24 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Some absurd concept
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In comp.misc, John McCue  <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> <snip>
> > and some legacy computing symbols.
> 
> I wonder what this means.  Legacy to me means all these symbols
> were 7-bit ASCII.  So now we have multiple encodings for '<'
> and '>' plus a whole host of others already represented in
> ASCII ?

In this case it's some checkboard patterns outside of U+0020 to U+007F
"ASCII" range used by some legacy system.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-2400.pdf

U+2427, U+2428, and U+2429. 

U+2427 I know was used as a delete cursor on Apple IIe systems, I don't
know about the others, but probably similar stories.

Elijah
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sponsor of U+2417 in that same code block