[plug] Non Linux Qn: Names of funny characters

Carl Gherardi gherardi at cs.curtin.edu.au
Mon Apr 30 20:52:23 WST 2001


Completely un-linux question but something that came up while writing
code.

what are the proper names of all the special charactes on the keyboard?

! - ?
@ - ?
# - octothorpe (!)
$ - ?
% - ?
^ - circumflex, carat
& - ampersnad
* - asterisk
| - ?
\/ - ?
() - parenthesis
[] - ?
{} - ?
>< - ?
... - ? (in typesetting books this is acually a special char)

Carl




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