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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (@@           robin)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/27
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	ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

	>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)

The Section sign is commonly used in books for the start of a section
and as a footnote reference mark.

The paragraph mark is a back-to-front "P" and is commonly used
by publishing houses to indicate a new paragraph (usually where
a new paragraph is to commence).  It is also used as a footnote
reference mark.