Special characters
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Special characters have been given pronunciations similar to letters and numbers in a radio alphabet. The most common pronunciations originated with users of Unix systems. Each of the ASCII printable characters has multiple names — some formal, some concise, some silly (Intercal is responsible for some of this).[1]
[edit] ASCII special characters
The following is a fairly complete list:
ASCII CODE
21 ! - "bang", "shreek"
22 " - "quote"
23 # - "hash" - distinct from "pound" which is the British currency symbol, "sharp", "octothorpe"
24 $ - "bling", "ding" (cash register sound), "cash", "buck", "dollar"
25 % - "Bond" ("double-oh-seven")
26 & - "amper" - distinct from "amp" in "&" (see below) and the word "and"
27 ' - "tick"
28 ( - "paren", "open"
29 ) - "paren", "close"
2A * - "splat", "star"
2B + - "plus"
2C , - "twitch"
2D - - "dash","minus"
2E . - "dot", "period"
2F / - "slash", "forward slash"
3A : - "two dots", "colon"
3B ; - "semi", "semicolon"
3C < - "waka", "less"
3D = - "equals"
3E > - "waka", "more"
3F ? - "hook", "query", "eh?"
40 @ - "whirl", "monkey", "at"
5B [ - "square", "left"
5C \ - "whack", "back slash"
5D ] - "square", "right"
5E ^ - "hat", "caret"
5F _ - "skid", "underbar", "underscore"
60 ` - "grave"
7B { - "curly", "embrace"
7C | - "bar", "pipe"
7D } - "curly", "unbrace"
7E ~ - "twiddle", "tilde"
B4 ´ - "acute"
#! - "sh'bang" (hash/bang)
/* - "slashterix"
*/ - "asterslash"
& - "amper-amp" - the HTML and XML encoding for the ampersand character[2]
[edit] References
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- ^ "The Jargon File": "ASCII" edited by Eric S. Raymond
- ^ "HTML Compatibility Guidelines". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_12.
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