[OT] Re^3: Reading lines beginning with pound # ignored

every voice menu I've ever heard has called it "press pound sign for..."

In Germany, the phone key # is usually called "Raute". And it drives me nuts for decades, because a Raute is a Rhombus. But people have misnamed it for decades, and so it became an official name. It has several other, better names, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelkreuz_(Schriftzeichen).

Alexander

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Re: [OT] Re^3: Reading lines beginning with pound # ignored by LanX (Saint) on Jun 25, 2023 at 13:39 UTC
> the phone key # is usually called "Raute". ... because a Raute is a Rhombus. That's because the original sign on the telephone was NOT a # but ⌗ (Unicode: U+2317 viewdata square). Often inclined it looks like a rhombus ⌗ ° The # is only a replacement symbol, which made it to the computer keyboard because of it's American use for numbering things. The official German name I use for # is Doppelkreuz (literally "double cross") Doppelkreuz is also a name for other symbols like the Patriarchal_cross but that's hardly relevant in an IT context. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) look at that pic of an old phone, to discover a rhombus with overshots at the corners https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT%26T_push_button_telephone_western_electric_model_2500_dmg_black.jpg	[reply]

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Re: [OT] Re^3: Reading lines beginning with pound # ignored
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 25, 2023 at 13:39 UTC

> the phone key # is usually called "Raute". ... because a Raute is a Rhombus.

That's because the original sign on the telephone was NOT a # but ⌗ (Unicode: U+2317 viewdata square). Often inclined it looks like a rhombus ⌗ °

The # is only a replacement symbol, which made it to the computer keyboard because of it's American use for numbering things.

The official German name I use for # is Doppelkreuz (literally "double cross")

Doppelkreuz is also a name for other symbols like the Patriarchal_cross but that's hardly relevant in an IT context.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

°) look at that pic of an old phone, to discover a rhombus with overshots at the corners https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT%26T_push_button_telephone_western_electric_model_2500_dmg_black.jpg

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