From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently I found an unexpected Unicode moment buried in the
documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. This was written by
Bobby Schmidt in 2000.
The name C sharp is really spelled as shown in my column's banner
graphic: The capital letter C
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:56:52 +0100, Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently I found an unexpected Unicode moment buried in the
documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. This was written by
Bobby Schmidt in 2000.
The name C sharp is
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure:
The musical sharp sign, of course, is U+266F, making the correct
spelling C.
From TUS: These symbols are typically used for text decorations, but they
may also be treated as normal text characters in applications such as
typesetting chess books,
The file extension is '.cs', since including punctuation marks would
cause problems on many systems.
The correct spelling is with a sharp sign, not a number sign, as
documented by Microsoft themselves in various places:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/productinfo/faq/default.aspx
quote:
To add to the confusion, the ECMA-334 standard writes in its reference PDF (page
27):
This clause is informative.
(...)
The name C# is pronounced C Sharp.
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed
by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D).
End of
So the name (or trademark?) is meant to be pronounced sharp (in
English),
visualized logographically with a sharp symbol, and entered as a hash (#)
symbol
which don't work within file extensions in so many tools.
I don't think you understand... the '.c#' file extension to which you
refer
Quoting Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The file extension is '.cs', since including punctuation marks would
cause problems on many systems.
The correct spelling is with a sharp sign, not a number sign, as
documented by Microsoft themselves in various places:
This clause is informative.
(...)
The name C# is pronounced C Sharp.
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed
by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D).
End of informative text.
Gotta love a language with a carriage return in it's name :)
--
Jon
From: Jon Hanna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This clause is informative.
(...)
The name C# is pronounced C Sharp.
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed
by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D).
End of informative text.
Gotta love a language with a
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