Wolf K wrote:
On 2017-10-08 13:32, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 17:11:10 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

Mayayana wrote:

ASCII is standard in all uses

Except when UK users want a pound sign £ and get a hash symbol # (yes I
realise Americans may call that a pound sign)

I was working with a customer about a year ago, helping him edit the
config file for a piece of his networking gear. He wanted to add a
comment, which in that case is signified by a line starting with the "#"
symbol.

I asked him to type a pound sign. He paused, scanning his keyboard
unsuccessfully, so I helpfully added, "Shift-3". He said, "Oh! You mean
a hashtag!"

Millennials... Thanks, Twitter!


# as "pound sign" is engineering usage. Learned it 61 years ago.... Also
used kip to mean 1,000 lbs.

BTW, robo-instrictions to "enter account number" usually continue with
"... and the pound sign."



Wikipedia files that symbol under "Number Sign".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

I'd tried a search on Octothorpe, and ended up there.

Paul