OT: What does this symbol mean §

[Joshua A. Andler]

This is correct...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign


On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:10 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote:
> I think it's shorthand for "section." It's used a lot in legal  
> documents.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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