Maybe this is something that everyone knows already, but I was recently looking into some possible "localization" issues regarding the asterisk character. That is to say the "*" character.
This character is sometimes referred to as the "wildcard" character as well, because when you use it, at say a command prompt, e.g., dir *, one gets everything listed. So the asterisk could be thought of as the "everything" character!
Now the ASCII decimal code for the asterisk character is 42, which is also interesting because 42 is the answer to the question: What is the meaning of life?, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_number_4242 is also the 2nd two byte word in every TIFF file, which according to my Microsoft-Aldus documentation is "for deep philosophical reasons".
So that must mean that the simple asterisk, is the answer to the "what is the meaning of life?" question, that philosophers have pondered over since the dawn of time. And that answer is of course, *everything*!
john
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