On 11/18/2013 10:17 AM, Dries Feys wrote:
Yes, I can imagine that some native French speaking people don't know the meaning of "at", spoken for them as "èt", but the sign "@" is ar(r)obas(e) in French. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (monkey tale), but "at" is more commonly used... Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer TVH GROUP NV Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM T +32 56 43 42 11 • F +32 56 43 44 88 • www.tvh.com
<snip> Then there are the younger users that know "#" only as "hash-tag" and not "pound-sign". Yes many of the "standard" characters have different names depending on the languages used. I just recently download over 200 PDF files that have the Unicode character glyphs and their names listed together. Plus it gives some other, and sometimes, interesting information with the names. Blow are a few of the "English Keyboard glyphs" and what was "stated" about them. 0023 # NUMBER SIGN = pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe → 2114 ℔ l b bar symbol → 266F ♯ music sharp sign ⁓ 0023 FE0E text style ⁓ 0023 FE0F emoji style 0026 & AMPERSAND → 204A ⁊ tironian sign et → 214B ⅋ turned ampersand 0027 ' APOSTROPHE = apostrophe-quote (1.0) = APL quote • neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage • 2019 ’ is preferred for apostrophe • preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 2018 ‘ & 2019 ’ • 05F3 ׳is preferred for geresh when writing Hebrew → 02B9 ʹ modifier letter prime → 02BC ʼ modifier letter apostrophe → 02C8 ˈ modifier letter vertical line → 0301 $́ combining acute accent → 05F3 ׳hebrew punctuation geresh → 2032 ′ prime → A78C ꞌ latin small letter saltillo 0060 ` GRAVE ACCENT • this is a spacing character → 02CB ˋ modifier letter grave accent → 0300 $̀ combining grave accent → 2035 ‵ reversed prime 007E ~ TILDE • this is a spacing character → 02DC ̃ small tilde → 0303 $̃ combining tilde → 2053 ⁓ swung dash → 223C ∼ tilde operator → FF5E ~ fullwidth tilde -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
