On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Karl Pentzlin wrote: > The problem I am confronted with is that this character shares > its German name "Raute" with the "#"
I learnt in 7th grade what “Raute” means. “#” is not a Raute. The center field of “#” is called Raute or Rhombus. BTW, Herr Pentzlin: http://www.machsmit.de/media/mainteaser/header-ichwillserleben.png http://www.machsmit.de/kampagne/printmedien.php show what the braindead German DIN keyboard layout has done to the apostrophe (’): Killed by the acute accent (´). http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html But if you don’t understand the difference between a Raute and a Nummernzeichen, you probably can’t tell an apostrophe (’) from an acute accent (´) either.
