From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 02:43:05 CST
Thanks, that agrees with what Tim Partridge said.
But no, the '#' symbol is not used in that context in Britain. Hey - we went
metric a long time ago! The international abbreviation for the mass unit we use
is "kg" (kilograms). The old abbreviation for the old Imperial "pound" is still
recognised though - it is "lb".
Jill
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hudson [mailto:tiro@tiro.com]
Sent: 29 March 2005 09:30
To: Arcane Jill
Cc: Unicode
Subject: Re: U+0023
In North America, # is used as a symbol for pound in the paper industry, e.g.
'70# text'
or '80# cover'. This is a weight designation. I don't know if this is also used
in the UK
or elsewhere.
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