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		wanderingstan 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why English doesn't use accents Interesting! The z80 card in my family’s Apple 2 would render “^” as “↑” and I always wondered the connection. I guess they were using the original spec.

kps 5 months ago [–]

And probably ‘←’ where we now have ‘_’. Character-generator ICs with the 1963 64-character set hung on around for a couple decades.

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