Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

       the more things change, the more they stay the same  ;-)

       This is quite an interesting list; thanks for sharing.



From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special
characters
To: users@global.libreoffice.org



On 11/18/2013 10:17 AM, Dries Feys wrote:

 Yes, I can imagine that some native French speaking people don't know
> the meaning of "at", spoken for them as "èt", but the sign "@" is
> ar(r)obas(e) in French.
> In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (monkey tale), but "at" is more
> commonly used...
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards,
>
> DRIES FEYS
> CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer
>
> TVH GROUP NV
> Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM
> T +32 56 43 42 11 • F +32 56 43 44 88 • www.tvh.com

<snip>

Then there are the younger users that know "#" only as "hash-tag" and not
"pound-sign". Yes many of the "standard" characters have different names
depending on the languages used.

I just recently download over 200 PDF files that have the Unicode character
glyphs and their names listed together.  Plus it gives some other, and
sometimes, interesting information with the names.  Blow are a few of the
"English Keyboard glyphs" and what was "stated" about them.


0023 # NUMBER SIGN

= pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe
→ 2114 ℔  l b bar symbol
→ 266F ♯  music sharp sign
⁓ 0023 FE0E  text style
⁓ 0023 FE0F  emoji style


0026 & AMPERSAND

→ 204A ⁊  tironian sign et
→ 214B ⅋  turned ampersand


0027 ' APOSTROPHE

= apostrophe-quote (1.0)
= APL quote
• neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
• 2019 ’  is preferred for apostrophe
• preferred characters in English for paired

quotation marks are 2018 ‘  & 2019 ’
• 05F3 ‫  ׳‬is preferred for geresh when writing

Hebrew
→ 02B9 ʹ  modifier letter prime
→ 02BC ʼ  modifier letter apostrophe
→ 02C8 ˈ  modifier letter vertical line
→ 0301 $́   combining acute accent
→ 05F3 ‫  ׳‬hebrew punctuation geresh
→ 2032 ′  prime
→ A78C ꞌ  latin small letter saltillo


0060 ` GRAVE ACCENT

• this is a spacing character
→ 02CB ˋ  modifier letter grave accent
→ 0300 $̀   combining grave accent
→ 2035 ‵  reversed prime


007E ~ TILDE

• this is a spacing character
→ 02DC  ̃  small tilde
→ 0303 $̃   combining tilde
→ 2053 ⁓  swung dash
→ 223C ∼  tilde operator
→ FF5E ~  fullwidth tilde

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