Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:57:11 +0000 (UTC) From: amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) Subject: Re: OT - A question about UK keyboards - was Re: Where can I find a buyer guide to the classic 900 (not the newer 900/9-3/9-5)
In article <m2nctuk3m48npp1ksc648a6dtdoru5sbi9nopsamcom> uctraingNOSPAMnopsamanet.com "Bob" writes: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:33:37 -0000, Skodapilot > <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com> wrote: > > > £12 > > Can you folks in the UK get that pound sign mark from just pressing > a "regular" key on the keyboard ? Is it the shift-4 key we have in > the USA that put in the "$" sign ? (But then what would you do when > you needed a $ in some programming language or such ?) > > Inquiring minds want to know ! Hoping none of the following repeats earlier words of wisdom in this thread... On a UK keyboard, the "pound sign" is usually on Shift+'3'. Some other symbols get moved around. The IBM UK keyboard has an extra key (contrasted with that for the US) to cope. FWIW, there are several issues here. (1) The "pound sign" is not a member of the ASCII character set, so (a) if you send into Usenet what looks like the pound on your machine, as an 8-bit code it is very likely to be mangled before emerging from the other end and (b) the code representing the pound varies. It happens that the above amount _did_ survive to display properly on my machine; but IMHO we were dumb-lucky. (2) If you are running an IBM PC type of machine using Code Page 437 (common in the USA), try this: hold down the Alt key; on the side number keys, enter the value 156; release the Alt key; and the pound symbol should appear. If using Code Page ISO 8859-1 (Internet base standard), change 156 to 163. In general, for Internet use, stick to ASCII. The proper way to denote, say, "12 pounds" is "GBP12" (not, as someone pointed out to me a while ago, "UKP12", which it seems refers to some kind of Ukrainian concept -- possibly not even currency). -- Andrew Stephenson
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