Mark A. Mandel wrote: >--- Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> wrote: > > > >>Exactly so - he added the cedilla to the nameplate outside his office. >>I don't recall the name of the resulting letter or even if it has a >>separate name; heck, I couldn't remember 'cedilla' until you pointed >>it out. >> >> > >"C-cedilla". Like "e-acute", "n-tilde" (which has its own name in Spanish, >"ene" with a tilde over the n, because it's in the alphabet), and so on. > > Thanks, Mark; that had been bugging me for a long time now. An amusing aside, in Spanish, tilde is the accent mark that goes over a vowel to indicate emphasis, which is why when I first learned of the tilde key on an American layout keyboard, I was greatly confused. How am I supposed to cheat in Doom and Quake if I can't find this tilde key?! Jose -- Jose Marquez | There are 10 types of people in jhereg69 at earthlink.net | the world: those who understand http://www.hackwater.com | binary, and those who don't.