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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
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Date: 1996-10-23T00:00:00+00:00
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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)

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