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

On 11/21/2013 02:00 PM, Mark Bourne wrote:
> Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In the UK, "#" is more commonly known as "hash" or "number sign".
>
> For us, "pound sign" usually means "£" ;o)
>
> Windows Vista's character map (and probably Windows 7's as well?) 
> displays the name of the selected character (and can search for 
> characters by name). It calls # "Number Sign" and £ "Pound Sign". I 
> think those are the "official" names defined by Unicode.
>
> Mark.
I always think of # as being a sharp sign. When I was in grade school,
over 60 years ago, "lb." meant pound(s). Writing a script in the
bash shell in Linux, you start with " #! " which is known as
"shabang."

--doug

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