Re: Use of U+203D (interrobang)

From: Philippe VERDY (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 14:32:44 CST

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    I'm not sure how we should name it in French:
    - "point d'interroclamation"
    - "point d'exclarogation?"

    Interrobang seems so much english (where the exclamation point is *sometimes* called "bang" in computer jargon used by users of some OS'es were it served as a special syntaxic mark for quoting an Unix command within Emacs)....
    Is the double !! punctuation also commonly named "bang bang"?

    That's quite a funny English name... If I had to translate the "Bang!" term according to its spelling and common meaning I would use "Pan!" french onomatopée (like in printed comics). So "interropan" would be used, and nobody would even know what it refears to.



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