It is unless you are in the UK (or use international char sets) as that is the pound symbol (will try and show it but =? ?)
We refer it (#) as well as as the hash symbol but I go back a bit :)
Vincent
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On 06/01/2021 23:16, Joe Monk wrote:
I've always heard "#" referred to as the pound sign.
Joe
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:13 PM Vince Coen <vbcoen@... <mailto:vbcoen@...>> wrote:
I have been involved in computers, (operating, programming, analysis,
Test and DB management & Director for IT since 1963.
In most of it the # symbol has been referred as hash for IBM, ICL,
and a
lot more mainframe, mini's and micro based platforms.
What the 2000's call it is a very odd happening but there again I
am not
a 17 - 40 year old.
Just my 5 pence worth.
Vincent
On 06/01/2021 18:59, Rhialto wrote:
> On Tue 05 Jan 2021 at 20:41:18 -0300, Fernando M. Roxo da Motta
wrote:
>> In Brasil is common to read as "cerquilha" (translate to little
fence),
> Yes, in Dutch it is sometimes called "hekje", which also
translates as
> little fence. The first part of it (i.e. "fence") is pronouced
similar
> to the English "hack", so #42 is the symbol for the Hackerspace
Hack 42.
> ( <>)
>
> -Olaf.
