[Asterisk-Users] the 'pound' and '#' are the same?

[Brad Bergman]

On 24 Jul 2003, Dave Cotton wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:15, johncn wrote:
> > the POUND and # are the same key in the telephone's keypad. If they
> > are same, how could we understand the following message:

During playback of a voicemail message, # fast forwards; any other time, # 
exits voicemail.

> I am about to start on French, pound = # = dièse 
> Maybe one day someone will translate into English :)
> pound = # = hash.

There is the analogous problem of << le carre >> in Quebec.

Curiously also, to digress, Nortel in Meridian Mail and its derivatives 
favours the term "number sign".