Re: Time for a new FAQ? [ plus a tiny fraction of my ascii collection... ;) ]

Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> wrote in article
<eMcDs8858GA.283@upnetnews03>...
> 
> Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <345...@on.spammer>...

> >The pund sign is a completely different, non-standard, character. (am I
> >missing something important here, or is Matthew missing something
> >important here?)

> That's odd.  "Hash" and "Pound" are both names for the tic-tac-toe board
> character "#".  (In obscure places--at least those obscure around
here--you
> may see "55 pounds" represented as "55#" (to be differentiated from
"#55",
> meaning "Number 55").) I seem to remember that odd British curly-L thing
> having a different name (which escapes me at present); I could be wrong
too,
> though.

The odd British curly-L thing is called a pound sign because it is the sign
used to denote the pound; the British unit of currency.  The only reason
the hash sign gets called the pound sign is because of the difference
between American-English and British-English keyboards.  The value (ANSI
13) used to represent the pound sign on a system using British-English is
the same value used to represent the hash sign on a system using
American-English.  Hence if I type a pound sign on my British-English
keyboard, the value that gets passed to your computer using
American-English operating software is interpreted as a hash sign.

The pound sign *is* a non-standard character because it is not defined in
either the standard list of ASCII or ANSI characters.

This is why you will occassionally see amounts in pounds stirling as
#amount.

- ZZ

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