>From a recent post
> This raises a festering pimple of a problem: calling each ascii > character by its Right Name -- whatever that is. Only people who've > worked both sides of the Pond seem to recognise this as an issue. Thus > in England, Hash # is never called Pound because that's a separate > symbol £ -- even if it is non-ascii. > > Observation[1]: w3.org came up with standard names for the so-called > html "entities", eg & > < which are hard to quarrel with. > Why don't we use these names? I'd suggest you use the names developed by Adobe for exactly this purpose. See the "red book" aka Postscript Language Reference Manual Appendix A. ( | is pipe, and # is numbersign in their nomenclature) Robert P. Rumble [email protected] (510) 886-8337 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
