[plug] Non Linux Qn: Names of funny characters

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:14:30PM +0800, skribe wrote:
[...]
> A google search gives me 157 matches for "octothorpe ampersand circumflex 
> asterisk". Most of the ones on the first page are jargon dictionaries of some 
> sort.  Many of the characters have multiple names.
[...]

It's not a complete co-incidence that you can find the handy program
"ascii" at ;
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/software.html

given that ESR is the editor of the Jargon File and the author of an
Intercal compiler (the source of some of the siller puncuation names).

Available via "apt-get install ascii", naturelement.

roj: ~> ascii octothorpe
ASCII 2/3 is decimal 035, hex 23, octal 043, bits 00100011: prints as `#'
Official name: Number Sign
Other names: Pound, Number, Sharp, Crunch, Mesh, Hex, Hash, Flash, Grid, Octothorpe 

Nick.

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