| ~ | tilde (sounds like til-da); be prepared to explain to computer-illiterate people saying "you know, the wave-shaped thingy" |
| ! | exclamation; commonly read as bang in case of #!/bin/sh |
| @ | at |
| # | pound; but commonly read as shee in case of #!/bin/sh, not sure why |
| $ | dollar |
| % | percent |
| ^ | caret; not many people know this word so be prepared to say "no, not carrot; it's the character above 6, an arrow pointing up" |
| & | ampersand |
| * | star; some read asterisk |
| ( | opening parenthesis (some may shorten it saying paren) |
| ) | closing parenthesis |
| _ | underscore; once I heard people say underbar |
| + | plus |
| - | minus; as symbol before arguments in commands, some people including me read dash, easier to say one syllable |
| = | equals |
| ` | backtick or backquote |
| { | opening brace |
| } | closing brace |
| [ | opening bracket |
| ] | closing bracket |
| | | pipe or vertical bar |
| \ | backslash; be prepared to explain to some computer-illiterate people |
| : | colon |
| ; | semicolon |
| " | double quote |
| ' | single quote |
| < | less than; some may read left angle bracket |
| > | greater than |
| , | comma |
| . | dot; period if in English text |
| ? | question mark |
| / | slash or forward slash; some computer-illiterate people may be confused about / and \ |
| | space |
| (), [] and {} | may also be called brackets in general. In that case, they specifically call [] square brackets and {} curly brackets. I never like this. Open and Closing may also be called left and right. |
Monday, January 21, 2008
English names for the characters in keyboard
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Hi!
The 'pound' (#) is also named 'hash' or even 'sharp' (which is really a musical sign).
The notation #! on the scripts is often called 'shebang' (sharp + bang). That's because it's commonly read as shee.
Hope this helps :)
Well, if you REALLY want to get technical, you may want to call "#" an octothorpe.
regarding (),[],{}
we can call them as
( : o-paren
) : c-paren
{ : o-brace
} : c-brace
[ : 0-bracket
] : c-bracket
where o stands for open
and c for close
...............isn't it simple?
Strictly F.Y.I.:
Wikipedia names the "`" mark as Grave Accent ( http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent ). Of course, Wikipedia is not a definitive source, but I thought that you might find this one datum to be interesting.
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