On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:03 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > The # is an invented character that originated at AT&T for touch tone > dialing. The official name is "octothorpe" - Greek for "8 points"... > but no one ever calls it that. I know =) > I think it got called "pound sign" because it was placed on keyboards > where typewriters used to place the British Pound Sterling symbol. See my post - it's only called 'pound sign' in the States. British people never call it that. Don't know what it's called in other countries. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
