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From: rozberk@terraworld.net (Rozberk Omniist)
Subject: Re: Was: REQ: Star Shape.  Now: Funny off topics...We have a
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Date: 1997/03/13
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On 11 Mar 1997 07:28:44 GMT, dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw wrote:

>>>>1.  What are the corrent names for these characters?
>>>>~ ^ & | {} and #

[snip,tuck,...opps!]

>"Tilde" -- good for you. Some people are trying to make that a "swung
>dash" or approximation sign. Tilde it is.
>
>"Caret" I dispute. It was originally called a circumflex, and I haven't
>seen one that looks like the caret in my dictionary's table of symbols
>(that one looks like an upside-down capital _V_; it is HUGE). ISO put
>umlaut, acute accent, and cedilla in 8859-1, but not circumflex or grave,
>'cuz ASCII already has those. (Personally, I would use the word "caret"
>only for a handwritten correction mark.)
>
>"Pipe" is the *function* of the vertical bar character on Unix and DOS
>systems, but not its name. The name is "vertical bar." (ISO 8859-1
>character 166 is a "*broken* vertical bar." An ASCII vertical bar --
>character 124 -- can be broken or solid.)
>
>"Curly brackets" -- The official name might be "braces."

Clearification based on my own expierience (so it's probably wrong):
"Curly Brackets" is used when the symbols are used to group items
together "horizontally", like parenthesis (is that plural?).  "Braces"
are used when you group items together "vertically", consisting of
more than one line (as in mathematics).
 
>"Pound sign" -- Danger! Some systems in the UK display a pound sterling
>sign where folks in the US see a tic-tac-toe/naughts-and-crosses thingy.
>Sure, both mean "pound," but there's a big difference between "five
>pounds sterling" and "five pounds of nails." It might be best to call
>that the "number sign"; I think it is used throughout the English-
>speaking world to mean "number" as in "the #1 site for ASCII art."

So far the best definitions of the symbols yet.  Much hoo-yah to you.
I'll be sending Mike jittlov's "Make Big Money" to right away.

Oh, as a bonus, how about these characters:  ` ' \ / _
*I* think they are "apostrophe","single quotes","back slash","forward
slach", and "under-bar".
Let see if that is there REAL names.

>By the way, anyone got an ANSI standard number for "extended ASCII"?
>Until I see an ANSI or ISO doc that uses that term, I'm convinced there
>ain't no such animal.
>
>Dan Strychalski
>dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw

Oh...Sorry about that.  I actually *DO* know whatcha talking about
here, but I'm afraid that I don't have the correct codes here.  I was
HOPING that someone wouldn't catch me on this.  Good show.
But I was referring to the "Latin I" version of ANSI (although I maybe
showing my ignorance and my faulty memory of 5 years ago) which is
common and standard lauguage on most of the DOS-based computers in
America.  This includes those "Extended ASCII" codes; 128-255 and is
commonly shown as "Terminal" font on Window-based computers (also in
America).  I hope I haven't made a complete boob of myself for that.

Again, Good show.  Thanks for playing.  Goo'day.