User:Bigpeteb/sandbox/Special characters
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Special characters have been given pronunciations similar to letters and numbers in a
radio alphabet. The most common pronunciations originated with users of Unix
systems.
Each of the Intercal is responsible for some of this).[clarification needed][1]
ASCII special characters
The following is a fairly complete list:[citation needed]
Single characters
| Dec | Hex | Glyph | Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 21 | ! | exclamation mark[a], bang, shriek, not[b] |
| 34 | 22 | " | quotation mark[a], quote |
| 35 | 23 | # | number sign[a], pound [sign], hash, sharp, comment[c], octothorpe[d] |
| 36 | 24 | $ | dollar sign bling, ding , cash, buck
|
| 37 | 25 | % | percent sign[a], percent, mod (or modulus or modulo)[b] |
| 38 | 26 | & | ampersand[a], and, amper, amp |
| 39 | 27 | ' | single quote[a], tick, string |
Paired characters
Characters such as parentheses have a pair of distinct left and right (opening and closing) forms.
| Glyphs | Open/close (name for each character) or Name (when both characters are referred to by the same name |
|---|---|
| ( ) | parentheses, parens, open/close |
| { } | curly braces, curlies, brace/unbrace, embrace/unbrace |
| [ ] | square brackets, brackets, square, U-turn/U-turn back[d] |
| < > | less than/greater than, less/greater, less/more, not equal to, bra/ket, from/into, from/towards, read from/write to, suck/blow, comes from/gozinta (goes in to), in/out, crunch/zap, tic/tac, waka/waka |
Unique readings
Almost all programming languages combine characters together to create additional meanings beyond what the characters would represent individually.
| Glyphs | Open/close (name for each character) or Name (when both characters are referred to by the same name |
|---|---|
| #! | shebang |
| /* | comment, open comment, slashterisk |
| */ | uncomment, close comment, asterslash |
| & | amper-amp, amp-amp, ampersand |
| == | equals, double equals |
| != | not equals |
| === | triple equals |
| ^. | up dot[e] |
| -> | arrow, dereference, up dot (from ^., which performs the same operation) |
| fn | lambda (in functional languages where it creates an anonymous function, from the symbol in lambda calculus) |
| => | dot (in functional languages where it creates an anonymous function, from the symbol in lambda calculus) |
ASCII CODE
28 ( - "paren", "open"
29 ) - "paren", "close"
2A * - "splat", "star", "asterisk"
2B + - "plus"
2C , - "twitch", "comma"
2D - - "dash","minus","tack"
2E . - "dot", "period"
2F / - "slash", "forward slash"
3A : - "two dots", "colon"
3B ; - "semi", "semicolon"
3C < - "waka", "less"
3D = - "equals"
3E > - "waka", "more"
3F ? - "hook", "query", "eh?" - question mark
40 @ - "whirl", "monkey", "at"
5B [ - "square", "left", "bracket"
5C \ - "whack", "back slash"
5D ] - "square", "right", "bracket"
5E ^ - "hat", "caret"
5F _ - "skid", "underbar", "underscore"
60 ` - "grave"
7B { - "curly", "embrace", "brace"
7C | - "bar", "pipe"
7D } - "curly", "unbrace"
7E ~ - "twiddle", "tilde"
B4 ´ - "acute"
#! - "sh'bang" (hash/bang)
/* - "slashterix"[citation needed]
*/ - "asterslash"[citation needed]
& - "amper-amp" - the HTML and XML encoding for the ampersand character[2]
Origin of names:
References
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- ^ "The Jargon File": "ASCII" edited by Eric S. Raymond
- ^ "HTML Compatibility Guidelines". World Wide Web Consortium.
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