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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:10:57 GMT
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This is in dispute.  American English (USA) has different words than
Commonwealth English (UK, Canada, Australia, etc)

"Rafał Maj" wrote:
> 
> I need to know english names for this symols :
>   ( )
US: Parenthese
Commonwealth: Brackets

>   [ ]
US: Braces
Commonwealth: Square Brackets

>   { }
US: Braces
Commonwealth: Curly Brackets

> '    like for example char x = 'a';
US: Single Quote
Commonwealth: Quotation Mark

> ""  like for example *char s = "abc";
US: Double Quote
UK: Double quotation mark

> `
Grave accent

> ~

Tilde -- "Til-dee"

> can anybody help ?

Hope this helps