From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 01:32:32 CST
Aha - I always wondered why I sometimes see hash refered to as "pound sign". I
had previously assumed it had something to do with the "old days" (I can
remember them) when we only had seven-bit encodings. In England, I can remember
using a computer in which 0x23 encoded U+00A3 (the real POUND SIGN), and
certainly it is the case even now that SHIFT+3 gets you '#' on an American
keyboard, but '£' on a British keyboard.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Jill
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk
Sent: 28 March 2005 23:38
To: rosennej@qsm.co.il
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: U+0023
In the UK it is not used as an abbreviation for pound (weight); "lb" is used
instead. A US book which referred to the "pound sign" being used in a table
confused me, as I expected the pound sterling currency symbol!
Tim
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