From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/23
Date: 1996-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54klch$jvu$1@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 326769AE.5C3E@cci.de
Andrew Lynch <lynch@cci.de> writes:
>BTW My German keyboard here at work has the "paragraph" symbol(?)
>above the three. (What is the correct English name for this, it is
>like two S shifted vertically, so they overlap in the middle.
>ie. the lower half of the upper S and the upper half of the lower
>S form a circle or an O - roughly speaking)
The paragraph sign or pilcrow looks rather like a P.
The thing you are talking about is a section sign
Both of them are in ISO Latin 1:
10#167# = 16#A7# "SECTION SIGN" (option-6 key on a Mac)
10#182# = 16#B6# "PILCROW SIGN" (option-7 key on a Mac)
--
Mixed Member Proportional---a *great* way to vote!
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-23 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-15 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1996-10-27 0:00 ` @@ robin
1996-10-28 0:00 ` 1941 and still looking... (was Re: the term "pound sign") Robert I. Eachus
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-17 0:00 John Walker
1996-10-02 0:00 help: character to integer Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-02 0:00 ` George Haddad
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-07 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Adam Beneschan
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox