Faciliate glyph type/speech encoding/decoding. Some are standard, others are colloquial. The shorter and less ambiguous the better.
| Char | Codespeak | Proper Name(s) |
|---|---|---|
| ` | Tick | Backtick, Grave accent |
| ~ | Squig | Tilde |
| ! | Bang | Exclamation mark |
| @ | At | At sign |
| # | Hash | Number sign, Number sign |
| $ | Bling | Dollar sign |
| % | Per | Percent sign |
| ^ | Hat | Caret |
| & | Amp | Ampersand |
| * | Splat | Asterisk |
| ( | O-paren | Open parenthesis |
| ) | C-paren | Close parenthesis |
| - | Dash | Minus sign, Dash |
| _ | Underscore | Underscore or understrike |
| = | Equal | Equals sign |
| + | Plus | Plus sign |
| | | Pipe | Vertical bar |
| [ | Brick | Open square bracket |
| ] | End brick | Close square bracket |
| { | Openstache | Open curly brace |
| } | Closestache | Close curly brace |
| ; | Semi | Semicolon |
| : | Colon | Colon |
| ' | Apos | Apostrophe, Single quote, quotation mark |
| " | Quote | Double quote, quotation mark |
| , | Comma | Comma |
| < | Croc | Less than sign |
| . | Dot | Period |
| > | End croc | Greater than sign |
| / | Whack | Forward slash |
| \ | Backwhack | Backslash |
| ? | Quest | Question mark |