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Let's consider rankings: punctuation marks, universal signage, food pyramid, proper grammatical usage, etc. After the dust settles, doubt there will be anyone standing to 'discuss' world peace.
The sort order is likely from Unicode which borrowed it from ASCII, so blame the American Standards Association which became the United States of America Standards Institute which became the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
"US-ASCII is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) preferred charset name for ASCII. The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3.2 (later X3L2) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3.2.4 working group. The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute."
"Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters. Thus #, $ and % were placed to correspond to 3, 4, and 5 in the adjacent column. The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character. Since many European typewriters placed the parentheses with 8 and 9, those corresponding positions were chosen for the parentheses. The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 0×40 next to the letter A."
Another reason the 'exclamation point' comes before the 'equals' symbol is because symbols are often sorted by the name they go by. '&' becomes 'and', '$' becomes 'dollar', '!' becomes 'bang' (not sure where that name came from, but there it is), and '#' becomes 'number' or 'pound', depending on context.
August 29th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Let's consider rankings: punctuation marks, universal signage, food pyramid, proper grammatical usage, etc. After the dust settles, doubt there will be anyone standing to 'discuss' world peace.
August 29th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Oops! Let's not forget a 'discussion' on the use of Arial and Comic Sans.
August 29th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
The sort order is likely from Unicode which borrowed it from ASCII, so blame the American Standards Association which became the United States of America Standards Institute which became the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
August 29th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
I had to look into that.
"US-ASCII is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) preferred charset name for ASCII. The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3.2 (later X3L2) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3.2.4 working group. The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute."
"Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters. Thus #, $ and % were placed to correspond to 3, 4, and 5 in the adjacent column. The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character. Since many European typewriters placed the parentheses with 8 and 9, those corresponding positions were chosen for the parentheses. The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 0×40 next to the letter A."
August 29th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Comic Sans: use never.
August 30th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
bah! jumble that SHI….STUFF!
August 31st, 2011 at 12:23 am
And before all there was.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:45 am
Aww, c'mon, it does serve a purpose. Good for sending funny messages and posters.
I realize Vincent Connare never intended Microsoft release it, but it's still a cool font for us 'non designers' to use.
I'll never give up my Comic Sans:)
September 1st, 2011 at 1:42 am
Another reason the 'exclamation point' comes before the 'equals' symbol is because symbols are often sorted by the name they go by. '&' becomes 'and', '$' becomes 'dollar', '!' becomes 'bang' (not sure where that name came from, but there it is), and '#' becomes 'number' or 'pound', depending on context.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:21 am
Speaking of grammatical usage, he's missing a comma in that last panel…
September 4th, 2011 at 6:07 am
[...] It wouldn’t be Sunday sans Comic. [...]
February 21st, 2012 at 9:17 pm
FOR X=1 TO 255
PRINT CHR$(X)
NEXT X
END