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Record 1 1999-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
  • Codes (Software)
  • Regional Dialects and Expressions
CONT

splat: name used by some people for the extended Stanford ASCII circle-x character "X". (This character is also called "circle-x", "grinch", "blobby", and "frob", among other names).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Régionalismes et usages particuliers
DEF

Nom du caractère [...], cercle-X en ASCII étendu. Ce caractère s'appelle aussi blobby [=tache] et frob [=bidule, machin].

Spanish

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