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The tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses |
The tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, and is pronounced "TILL-duh" (IPA /'tɪldə/) in English or "TEEL-day" /tilde/ in Spanish. It was originally written over a letter as a diacritic (see below), but has since acquired a number of other uses as a character in its own right |
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[[Wikipedia:Tilde]] |
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* [http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/04/history_of_the_tilde History of the tilde |
* [http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/04/history_of_the_tilde History of the tilde] |
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In fact, Jukka has written a lengthy treatise on why the tilde should not be used in URLs, a treatise which, I feel obliged to point out, contains a tilde in its URL. |
In fact, Jukka has written a lengthy treatise on why the tilde should not be used in URLs, a treatise which, I feel obliged to point out, contains a tilde in its URL. |
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[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tilde.html Why tilde (~) should not be used in Web addresses (URLs)] |
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tilde.html Why tilde (~) should not be used in Web addresses (URLs)] |
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Revision as of 22:22, 15 February 2006
The tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, and is pronounced "TILL-duh" (IPA /'tɪldə/) in English or "TEEL-day" /tilde/ in Spanish. It was originally written over a letter as a diacritic (see below), but has since acquired a number of other uses as a character in its own right
Every command-line-loving geek will tell you that ~ stands for home directory, and cd ~ will take you to your home directory. (cd ~username will take you to someone else’s, except on Mac OS X, where it will take you to their Public file sharing directory.)
In fact, Jukka has written a lengthy treatise on why the tilde should not be used in URLs, a treatise which, I feel obliged to point out, contains a tilde in its URL.