[HN Gopher] Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
Author : m_walden
Score : 27 points
Date : 2025-04-12 18:55 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| johndoe0815 wrote:
| One more theory - it could be a tabulator or cursor symbol (for
| word processing applications).
| raverbashing wrote:
| Yup. That's what it looks like to me as well
| fredoralive wrote:
| I seem to recall whether 0xE1 in codepage 437 is supposed to be a
| Greek lowercase beta (b) or a German sharp s (Ss) is
| intentionally a bit fuzzy, so its perhaps they intended it to be
| both a delta and a dingbat.
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| I'm not really sure if a house fits it that much, wouldn't a
| generic "house" symbol have a chimney (although obviously, it's
| hard to fit one in with such a low resolution).
| darkwater wrote:
| Wow, it really goes in depth on the topic, in the beginning I was
| like "wtf am I even reading this" and after a while I was hooked
| by the writing style, the depth of the research and also the
| design of the website. Really, really cool.
| susam wrote:
| Linked in this article is VileR's excellent website
| <https://int10h.org/>. In fact, it is linked 8 times in this
| article. If this kind of thing interests you, I highly recommend
| following those links. VileR's site is probably the best resource
| we have today that preserves the various PC OEM fonts from a
| bygone technological era -- an era that lives on as fond memories
| for many of us who grew up with those machines. I've certainly
| spent hours on that website comparing the various OEM fonts,
| picking the good ones for my own work, etc.
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