Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound, octothorpe?)

From: Patrick Andries (pandries@iti.qc.ca)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 12:04:30 EDT


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From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
To: "'William Overington'" <WOverington@ngo.globalnet.co.uk>;
<unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <archive@ngo.globalnet.co.uk>

> > Also, how does one say the U+007E character out loud while
> > reading out the address of a web page?
>
> "Ondina" (on-DEE-nah), "tilde" (TILL-day), or you just make a waving
gesture
> with your hand.

Ondina is very nice to me, similar idea used in ISO French name list for
U+0672 ALIF HAMZA ONDÉ, for instance)

Patrick

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