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Darren New schrieb:
> clipka wrote:
>> where we'd replace some rarely-used characters with the German umlauts,
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> 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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