[plug] Non Linux Qn: Names of funny characters

[Steve Grasso]

And my 0.005 cents worth are in chevrons:

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, James Bromberger wrote:
> 
> 
> I added one in double angle brackets:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:20:46PM +0800, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> > > > ! - ? "Exclamation mark."
> > > > @ - ?
> > > > # - octothorpe (!) HASH
> > > > $ - ? "dollar sign"
> > > > % - ? "percentage sign"
> > > > ^ - circumflex, carat
> > > > & - ampersnad AMPERSAND
> > > > * - asterisk
> > > > | - ?  <<pipe>>
> > > > \/ - ? "slashes"
> > > > () - parenthesis
> > > > [] - ? BRACKETS
> > > > {} - ? BRACES
> > > > >< - ?			<<<<CHEVRON>>>>
> > > > ... - ? (in typesetting books this is acually a special char) ELLIPSIS
> 
> As one character: <<  - Open quotes in French
> 		  >>  - Close quotes in French
> 
> 	-   hyphen
> 	-   n dash (or endash, ie, length of an 'n')
> 	--  m dash (or emdash), (simulated with hyphens here, length of 'm')
> 
> 
> -- 
>  James Bromberger <james_AT_rcpt.to> www.rcpt.to/~james
> 
>        * *  C u in Bordeaux - 1st Debian Conference, July 2001 * * 
>  Remainder moved to http://www.rcpt.to/~james/james/sig.html
> 

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