The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; <reverse slant>; reversed

       virgule; [backslat].

      ^

       Common: hat; control; uparrow; caret; <circumflex>. Rare:

       chevron; [shark (or shark-fin)]; to the (`to the power of');

       fang; pointer (in Pascal).

      _

       Common: <underline>; underscore; underbar; under. Rare:

       score; backarrow; skid; [flatworm].

      `

       Common: backquote; left quote; left single quote; open quote;

       <grave accent>; grave. Rare: backprime; [backspark];

       unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push;

       <opening single quotation mark>; quasiquote.

      {}

       Common: open/close brace; left/right brace; left/right

       squiggly; left/right squiggly bracket/brace; left/right curly

       bracket/brace; <opening/closing brace>. Rare: brace/unbrace;

       curly/uncurly; leftit/rytit; left/right squirrelly;

       [embrace/bracelet].

      |

       Common: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare:

       <vertical line>; gozinta; thru; pipesinta (last three from

       UNIX); [spike].

      ~

       Common: <tilde>; squiggle; {twiddle}; not. Rare: approx;

       wiggle; swung dash; enyay; [sqiggle (sic)].

      The pronunciation of `#' as `pound' is common in the U.S.

       but a bad idea; {{Commonwealth Hackish}} has its own, rather more

       apposite use of `pound sign' (confusingly, on British keyboards

       the pound graphic

       happens to replace `#'; thus Britishers sometimes

       call `#' on a U.S.-ASCII keyboard `pound', compounding the

       American error). The U.S. usage derives from an old-fashioned

       commercial practice of using a `#' suffix to tag pound weights

       on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced `hash'

       outside the U.S.

      The `uparrow' name for circumflex and `leftarrow' name for

       underline are historical relics from archaic ASCII (the 1963

       version), which had these graphics in those character positions

       rather than the modern punctuation characters.

      The `swung dash' or `approximation' sign is not quite the same as tilde in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for both (compare {angle brackets}).

      Some other common usages cause odd overlaps. The `#', `$', `>', and `&' characters, for example, are all pronounced "hex" in different communities because various assemblers use them as a prefix tag for hexadecimal constants (in particular, `#' in many assembler-programming cultures, `$' in the 6502 world, `>' at Texas Instruments, and `&' on the BBC Micro, Sinclair, and some Z80 machines). See also {splat}.

      The inability of ASCII text to correctly represent any of the world's other major languages makes the designers' choice of 7 bits look more and more like a serious {misfeature} as the use of international networks continues to increase (see {software rot}). Hardware and software from the U.S. still tends to embody the assumption that ASCII is the universal character set; this is a a major irritant to people who want to use a character set suited to their own languages. Perversely, though, efforts to solve this problem by proliferating `national' character sets produce an evolutionary pressure to use a *smaller* subset common to all those in use.

      :ASCII art: n. The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII

       character set (mainly `|', `-', `/', `\', and

       `+'). Also known as `character graphics' or `ASCII

       graphics'; see also {boxology}. Here is a serious example:

      o——)||(—+—|<——+ +————-o + D O

       L )||( | | | C U

       A I )||( +—>|-+ | +-\/\/-+—o - T

       C N )||( | | | | P

       E )||( +—>|-+—)—-+—)|—+-o U

       )||( | | | GND T

       o——)||(—+—|<——+—————+

      A power supply consisting of a full

       wave rectifier circuit feeding a

       capacitor input filter circuit

      Figure 1.

      And here are some very silly examples:

      |\/\/\/| ____/| ___ |\_/| ___

       | | \ o.O| ACK! / \ |` '| / \ | | =()= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \ | (o)(o) U / \ C ) (__) \/\/\/\ _____ /\/\/\/ | ,___| (oo) \/ \/ | / \/———-\ U (__) /____\ || | \ /—-V `v'- oo ) / \ ||—-W|| * * |—| || |`. |_/\

      Figure 2.

      There is an important subgenre of humorous ASCII art that takes advantage of the names of the various characters to tell a pun-based joke.

      +————————————————————————————+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +————————————————————————————+ " A Bee in the Carrot Patch "

      Figure 3.

      Within humorous ASCII art, there is for some reason an entire

       flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. Four of these are

       reproduced in Figure 2; here are three more:

      (__) (__) (__)

       (\/) ($$) (**)

       /———-\/ /———-\/ /———-\/

       / | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||

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