Re: OT: What does this symbol mean §

[Jon M. Hanson]

I think it's shorthand for "section." It's used a lot in legal  
documents.

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On May 21, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what this symbol means?
>
> §
>
> Perhaps it has multiple applications/meanings?
>
> Is there some way to access this symbol from a standard 108 keyboard?
> In Pagemaker, by experimenting, I discovered that CTRL+SHIFT+6
> produces this symbol.
>
> CTRL+Shift+O = © (copyright symbol)
> CTRL+shift + 3 = page number
> CTRL+SHIFT+6 = §
> CTRL+SHIFT+7 = ¶ (paragraph symbol?)
> CTRL+SHIFT+8 = • (a bullet point)
>
> Are there other symbols that are commonly accessible from a standard
> 108 keyboard?  Where can one find a table listing and describing such
> symbols?
>
> Google found this:
> The symbol Unicode symbol U+2118 (℘) is the Weierstrass elliptic
> function symbol.
> It is notorious for being one of the most wrongly named Unicode
> symbols. Unicode named it SCRIPT CAPITAL P and once a Unicode
> character is named. Unicode has vowed that this name shall never be
> changed in a future version of Unicode to avoid confusion within
> tables and software that references tables. As the Unicode people say
> in the Unicode Manual 5.0, 15 section 15.2:
>
> “Despite its name U+2118 SCRIPT CAPITAL P is neither script nor
> capital—it is uniquely the Weierstrass elliptic function symbol
> derived from a calligraphic /lowercase/ p, ...” However the Unicode
> people have recently discovered that they are allowed to introduce
> official informative aliases for their characters and they have now
> done this for U+2118. The official alias is: Weierstrass elliptic
> function.
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