From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In comp.misc, John McCue   wrote:   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >    
   > > 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   
      
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