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From: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
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Subject: Re: Name that character!
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Date: 28 May 91 21:49:17 GMT
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 #     sharp (I've only heard this from British people,
              although the musical use is international)
 #     octomorph
 {}    left brace, right brace
 []    left and right square bracket, although the
       "square" isn't really necessary if you're purist
       about calling a brace a brace and a parenthesis
       a parenthesis
 @     commercial at-sign
 <>    less-than, greater-than sign
 $     I always call it a dollar sign, but I've heard it
       called "currency symbol", which is pretty ambiguous
       considering the number of other currency symbols
       found on keyboards of various kinds
 !?    exclamation point, question mark
 ^~'   caret, tilde, apostrophe
 *&    asterisk, ampersand