The mysterious "small house" in an old IBM character set
The Glyph Drawing Club blog has a fantastic post about the "small house" to be found in IBM code page 437. Unicode has inherited it (hopefully it'll show up quoted below in whatever form your system offers) but why was it there?
There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM …
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