I just have a question. Is the "%" considered a character or symbol?

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:05:11 +0000, ...7 wrote:

Yes.

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"...7" <Ronnie.Mitchum@gmail.com> wrote in message
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It is shown in the Character Map and if you select it in there it is
shown in 'Characters To Copy', so from that I think that you can safely
assume that it is a Character.

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Emrys Davies.

....7 wrote:
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You are a googlegrouper. You have configured your googlegroups login
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Googlegroups sez that your login is:

From: "...7" <Ronnie.Mitchum@gmail.com>

That means that you logged into GG with that gmail addy and its
associated PW. Further, that means that you 'requested' GG to configure
your account to give you a 'name' or handle of dot dot dot seven.
There's a problem with that. What if I wanted to say, "Dot dot seven
asked Mike and some others a question." That's stupid to choose a
handle which doesn't 'handle' well in a discussion.

OK. 'Stupid' isn't a very nice word. Starting a question off by
saying, "I have a question." is something that 'reminds me of' a stupid
way to ask a question. A silly way? Some kind of way. What is the
point of saying, "I have a question." before asking a question. It is
going to become very very very obvious that you have a question when the
question comes out.

And, then, there's the question. Not really a very wise question.

Here's a wiki definition of a character.

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a
character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a
grapheme or a grapheme-like unit or symbol, such as in an alphabet or
syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

The wiki goes on to say some more:

An example of a character is a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark. The
concept also includes control characters, which do not correspond to
natural language symbols but to other bits of information used to
process texts of the language, such as control characters like carriage
return or tab, as well as instructions to printers or other devices that
display such texts.

Notice that in the extension of the 'definition' or description of the
character, the term 'symbol' was used.

The wiki's definition of symbol is not helpful in this regard.

There is also an important concept of a 'character set', such as ascii,
which is said to include letters, numerals and other 'symbols'. So,
in the context of 7 bit ascii, I would consider the 128 'characters' as
consisting of control characters, letters, numerals, and some symbols of
which one is decimal 37 or hex 25 or %.

In the context of ascii characters, I would consider the character % a
symbol and not a letter, numeral, or control character.



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On Jul 25, 7:48 pm, "Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote:
Classic

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:05:11 -0000, "...7" <Ronnie.Mitchum@gmail.com>
wrote:

Unicode? It's non-alphanumeric and not a punctuation mark so it's a
symbol. It's part of the ASCII character set (American Standard for
Information Interchange) and, AFAIK, it is on every Windows regional
keyboard and in every Windows text font (including, for example,
Cyrillic fonts for Russian) in the same place.

....7 wrote:
Exactly. The googlegrouper with the silly handle and the silly question
bottomposts and leaves the untrimmed sig.

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"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

That makes him 3 of 7, he's pry pretty high ranking in his Star Trek
club


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....7 wrote:
It's a glyph (shape) and a character (part of ASCII) and a symbol for
"percent" or 1/100

On 2007-07-26, Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:
.... so that makes it an ideogram, too.

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