Darren New schrieb:
> clipka wrote:
>> where we'd replace some rarely-used characters with the German umlauts, 
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is why Americans call "#" the "pound sign." It's on 
> the keyboard in the same place the Brits put their currency marker.

Indeed. As a matter of fact, just like the Germans used a variation of 
the ASCII code, so did the British, using the "#" code point for their 
currency sign.

I'm pretty sure the origin of calling "#" the "pound sign" was from 
Americans being unaware that the Brits, when talking about that code 
point, were actually talking about a totally different symbol.

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