Macintosh:
On a US keyboard the '#' sign is Shift-3 (where, on a British keyboard
there is a pound sign).
On a British keyboard, as Mark correctly states, it is Alt/Opt-3.
On a German keyboard the '#' is Shift + Alt/Opt-3.
On a French keyboard the '#' is Shift + Alt/Opt-' (the key that is a
'\' on the US keyboard).
Reasonably accessible.
Richmond.
On 7/4/17 10:28 am, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2017-06-29 18:45, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
So long as we all generally agree that "#" can be called "pound, Hash
or Sharp" (not so sure I agree with the last one btw) then we can talk
about it. So far as the computer is concerned, it's ascii(035) and
even that is a synonym for 00100010.
'Sharp' because it is used in music to denote sharpening of the base
note (despite my musical background, I still see it as 'hash' in my
mind when I see it though).
Just noting something Alex said about # not being directly accessible
on Mac (it is Alt/Option - 3) - I always found this somewhat
amusing... I often wondered if it is because in the early days Apple
favoured Pascal as its primary implementation language beyond assembly
- if it had been C I suspect it would have been more accessible as C
code (particularly going back decades) uses # quite a lot...
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
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