Keld responded:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:47:42PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > Mark Davis scripsit:
> >
> > > Those "mnemonics" in (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html) are pretty
> > > useless in practice, as well as being misnamed. From Websters: "assisting or
> > > intended to assist memory". So what about the combination <;S> is supposed
> > > to aid or assist memory in coming up with U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF
> > > RING? Beats me.
> >
> > ";" in many (though not all) mnemonics means "ogonek", so its presence here
> > is reasonable, considering that this character (which appears only in
> > ISO-IR-158) is the original "High Ogonek". Since ISO-IR-158 is for Saami,
> > perhaps "S" stands for "Saami". Writing "S;" would erroneously suggest
> > "S with ogonek".
>
> Well, the "S" stands for superscript, "s" here would mean subscript.
Or shade, as in:
.S 2591 LIGHT SHADE
:S 2592 MEDIUM SHADE
?S 2593 DARK SHADE
Or space, as in:
BS 0008 BACKSPACE (BS)
SP 0020 SPACE
IS 3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
NS 00a0 NO-BREAK SPACE
(not to be confused with:
nS 207f SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N)
Or spade, as in:
cS 2660 BLACK SPADE SUIT
cS- 2664 WHITE SPADE SUIT
Or Z, as in:
DS 0405 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZE (Macedonian)
Or selected, as in:
ES 0087 END OF SELECTED AREA (ESA)
SA 0086 START OF SELECTED AREA (SSA)
Or separator, as in:
FS 001c FILE SEPARATOR (IS4)
GS 001d GROUP SEPARATOR (IS3)
RS 001e RECORD SEPARATOR (IS2)
US 001f UNIT SEPARATOR (IS1)
Or square, as in:
fS 25a0 BLACK SQUARE
OS 25a1 WHITE SQUARE
SR 25ac BLACK RECTANGLE
Or set, as in:
HS 0088 CHARACTER TABULATION SET (HTS)
VS 008a LINE TABULATION SET (VTS)
Or standard, as in:
KSC 327f KOREAN STANDARD SYMBOL
Or start, or string, as in:
SS 0098 START OF STRING (SOS)
ST 009c STRING TERMINATOR (ST)
SX 0002 START OF TEXT (STX)
SG 0096 START OF GUARDED AREA (SPA)
SH 0001 START OF HEADING (SOH)
Or substitute, as in:
SB 001a SUBSTITUTE (SUB)
Or synchronous, as in:
SY 0016 SYNCRONOUS IDLE (SYN)
Or state, as in:
TS 0093 SET TRANSMIT STATE (STS)
Or shift, as in:
SI 000f SHIFT IN (SI)
SO 000e SHIFT OUT (SO)
Or single, as in:
SC 009a SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER (SCI)
Or sun, as in:
SU 263c WHITE SUN WITH RAYS
Or section, as in:
SE 00a7 SECTION SIGN
Or service, as in:
SM 2120 SERVICE MARK
Of something-or-other (or "spot" ?), as in:
Sb 2219 BULLET OPERATOR
Sn 25d8 INVERSE BULLET
{Excuse me if I tend to confuse those two with Antimony and Tin,
respectively, creating a mnemonic antinomy.}
Or, of course, S:
S 0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
The wondrous thing about this set of mnemonic symbols is that
you need a mnemonic system to remember all the mnemonics.
--Ken
