Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

Jon Amery (jda...@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <34b...@news.earthlink.net>,
: Robert Brody <rabrody@earthlink.net_NOJUNK> wrote:
: >
: >I'm not familiar with telephones in Great Britain so I don't know what
: >a touch tone phone in G.B. looks like.  As you probably know, the
: >touch tone phones here in the U.S. have the hash/pound/tic-tac-toe key
: >which is usually referred to as pound when using a voice menuing
: >system, faxback, etc., which asks for input and then instructs to
: >press pound to complete the input.  I can't recall ever having heard
: >the message say press hash, or anything else other than pound.  I'd be
: >curious how that's handled in G.B.  (The closest I've come to a voice
: >menuing phone system in G.B. was a British company with offices in the
: >U.S.  The recording was a very pleasant woman with a delightful
: >English accent but she did say press the pound key to complete an
: >entry.)

: What ever they feel like.  Most people are inteligent enough[1] to figure that
: when they say "square" or "hash" or "octothorpe" (yes I have had that one...) 
: or even "pound" that they don't mean the "star" or "asterix", which seems to 
: be used more often.

:  Jonathan.

: [1] Well, out of the field of people who could otherwise get through an
:  automated british phonecall...

Jonathan beat me to it - normally we are directed to press "star".
Actually, we are generally directed to dial the number we require; or "if
you want to make an enquiry about something dial 1 now. If you want to
order dial 2 now..." and the thing you actually want to do is invariably 9
or *, right at the end of the message.

Linz, also at Trinity Hall (small world, eh!)

--
Lindsay Endell 				lie...@cam.ac.uk & lin...@earthling.net
Conference Administrator, Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ

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