Feature Request - Categories for special characters

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#1

Who doesn't know the word ampersand ...
           who now days doesn't know the at-sign ...
              and the tilde is one of the marks, in the Romance languages,
placed over some of their letters to distinguish meanings ...

#2

Yes, I can imagine that some native French speaking people don't know
the meaning of "at", spoken for them as "èt", but the sign "@" is
ar(r)obas(e) in French.
In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (monkey tale), but "at" is more
commonly used...

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#3

Who doesn't know the word ampersand ...

This is a rather silly question: you can't expect me to name names! But - as I said before - the answer is "many people". Just ask around ...

who now days doesn't know the at-sign ...

You have made my point perfectly: because you don't know the name of the symbol itself, you have to identify it by its function and call it the "at sign". That's just like the people who don't know the word "ampersand" calling that symbol the "and sign".

and the tilde is one of the marks, in the Romance languages, placed over some of their letters to distinguish meanings ...

Indeed. And that's basically my point: the character "~" on my keyboard is mid-height and would not be "placed over" anything (even a lower-case letter). So it must be something else.

Brian Barker

#4

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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.

I just recently download over 200 PDF files that have the Unicode character glyphs and their names listed together. Plus it gives some other, and sometimes, interesting information with the names. Blow are a few of the "English Keyboard glyphs" and what was "stated" about them.

0023 # NUMBER SIGN

= pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe
→ 2114 ℔ l b bar symbol
→ 266F ♯ music sharp sign
⁓ 0023 FE0E text style
⁓ 0023 FE0F emoji style

0026 & AMPERSAND

→ 204A ⁊ tironian sign et
→ 214B ⅋ turned ampersand

0027 ' APOSTROPHE

= apostrophe-quote (1.0)
= APL quote
• neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
• 2019 ’ is preferred for apostrophe
• preferred characters in English for paired

quotation marks are 2018 ‘ & 2019 ’
• 05F3 ‫ ׳‬is preferred for geresh when writing

Hebrew
→ 02B9 ʹ modifier letter prime
→ 02BC ʼ modifier letter apostrophe
→ 02C8 ˈ modifier letter vertical line
→ 0301 $́ combining acute accent
→ 05F3 ‫ ׳‬hebrew punctuation geresh
→ 2032 ′ prime
→ A78C ꞌ latin small letter saltillo

0060 ` GRAVE ACCENT

• this is a spacing character
→ 02CB ˋ modifier letter grave accent
→ 0300 $̀ combining grave accent
→ 2035 ‵ reversed prime

007E ~ TILDE

• this is a spacing character
→ 02DC ̃ small tilde
→ 0303 $̃ combining tilde
→ 2053 ⁓ swung dash
→ 223C ∼ tilde operator
→ FF5E ~ fullwidth tilde

#5

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.

#6

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.

#7

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

#8

That's only for pounds Avoirdupois (and it's "lb", not "lb."), of course. Pounds Sterling is £.

Brian Barker

#9

Doug 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.

The musical sharp symbol is slightly different: ♯

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."

"shabang", I think, is short for "hash bang" - another name for "!" being a bang.

#10

Mark Bourne wrote:

I always think of # as being a sharp sign.

The musical sharp symbol is slightly different: ♯

Yeah, it is a bit flat to be a sharp sign. :wink:

I've always known it as a number sign.

#11

Ruth Ann wrote:

OT maybe, but does anyone know the name for "@" ?
Something I have been trying to discover for years :slight_smile:
Ruth Ann,
Cincinnati, OH USA

It depends who you ask, and in what language ;o) Unicode calls it "commercial at". The article about it on Wikipedia is titled "At sign", and mentions some other names:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign

Mark.

#12

The recorded voicemail messages (at least here in the U.S.), always instruct us to "press the pound key."

Virgil

#13

pound sign
/n./
*1. * The symbol () for a unit of currency, especially the pound sterling.
*2. * The symbol (#) for a pound as a unit of weight.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company <http://www.eref-trade.hmco.com/>. All rights reserved.

Steve

#14

I always think of a tic-tac-toe game.

#15

In Spanish, at least in Peruvian Spanish, it is called "aroba" (or maybe it's "arroba").