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Subject:Re: Hash marks revisited From:"Colleen Dancer (02) 333-1862" <DANCER -dot- COLLEEN -at- A2 -dot- ABC -dot- NET -dot- AU> Date:Mon, 19 Aug 1996 14:15:55 +1000
David Ibbetson wrote:
Where's your audience? In countries that use the pound as a unit of money
the phrase "pound sign" means the fancy capital L that is used in the
same way as (USians use the dollar sign). In former times a script lower
case l after the amount was used as an alternative to the fancy L before
the amount.
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You also cannot use the "pound sign" definition for countries like
Australia. Call it a hash in general or an octothorpe for telephony
applications maybe. This maybe because we at one stage had pounds
(although not in my memory :) ).
Colleen Dancer
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