Re: Typesetter's question
Al Getz wrote:
[snipped the very interesting info]
> The @-sign has different names in different languages:
> In England it is called at-sign or commercial at,
> in Germany Klammeraffe (hanging monkey), in France arobas
> or petit escargot (small snail), in Spain arroba
> (an entity for weight) and in Italy chiocciolina
> (small snail).
In the Unicode tables, the '@' sign has the official
name - COMMERCIAL AT.
In other words '&' = English 'and', '@' = English 'at'
In Russia, this sign is widely known as 'sobaka' - 'dog' in English,
but you can meet it as 'obezjana' - 'monkey', or 'kljushka' - 'club',
'ice-hockey stick'.
But the official Russian name of that dog is something like to
'commercial sign', and direct translation is just 'na' = 'at' = '@',
same as Russian 'i' = 'and' = '&'.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
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