In the US, and probably some other English speaking countries, # is the "pound" key on telephones. In the UK it's called the "hash" key. The technical name for the punctuation mark is "octothorpe".
A lot of punctuation has strange technical names that you don't hear every day (or maybe you do if you are a typeset designer): ^ - chevron (Look at a Chevron gas station's logo next time you see one. It's two stacked chevrons.) / - virgule, solidus ` - grave = - quadrathorpe # - octothorpe * - asterisk (our favorite) & - ampersand I haven't ever found any really interesting technical terms for @, %, or ?. I'd be interested in hearing some.. For you programmer types out there, take a look at this for some punctuation pronouncing fun: http://www.latenighthacking.com/projects/2002/spokenPunctuation/ Sorry for the ramble, John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of johncn Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] the 'pound' and '#' are the same? Hi, I am translating the voice files of voicemail now. I don't know if the POUND and # are the same key in the telephone's keypad. If they are same, how could we understand the following message: %vm-msginstruct.gsm%To hear the next message press 6, to repeat this message press 5, to hear the previous message press 4, to delete or undelete this message press seven, to quite voicemail press pound. During message playback, you may press * to rewind, and # to fast forward. Regards. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
