[plug] Non Linux Qn: Names of funny characters

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

my bit in double quotes.

Beau kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alex Polglaze wrote:

> My bit in Capitals, hope it helps
>
>
> Alex
>
> Carl Gherardi wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > ! - ? "Exclamation mark."
> > @ - ?
> > # - octothorpe (!) HASH
> > $ - ? "dollar sign"
> > % - ? "percentage sign"
> > ^ - circumflex, carat
> > & - ampersnad AMPERSAND
> > * - asterisk
> > | - ?
> > \/ - ? "slashes"
> > () - parenthesis
> > [] - ? BRACKETS
> > {} - ? BRACES
> > >< - ?
> > ... - ? (in typesetting books this is acually a special char) ELLIPSIS
>
>