X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a483df434ae1e3f4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Rosemary Lyndall Wemm Subject: Re: Someone was looking for the � (British Pound) symbol... Date: 1996/02/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140116278 references: <4frh3n$khr@news1.inlink.com> to: Bob Allison content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Paul Hustava wrote: > It's alt-156 =A3. Well, actually it's not that simple. On my PC alt-156 with the NumLock On will produce a pound sign. However your pound turns up on my screen as a u with a forwards slash above it :-) It depends on the ASCII set you use, your terminal type and the terminal protocols which convert it along the way to you.=20 Here is a sample set which I have uploaded to my VT100 terminal using=20 zmodem. [Using ASCII protocol means that I lose all but the=20 u-forward-slash of the set.] US ASCII: PC running DOS Num Lock On via VT100 terminal =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D shift 3 =3D # =3D alt 35 =3D # shift 4 =3D $ =3D alt 36 =3D $ shift 7 =3D & =3D alt 38 & alt 151 =3D =97 =3D u back slash alt 155 =3D =9B =3D cents alt 156 =3D =9C =3D pounds alt 157 =3D =9D =3D yen alt 159 =3D =9F =3D integrate/function alt 163 =3D =A3 =3D u forward slash What you get on your screen might be quite different to what I get on=20 mine. [I hope it doesn't do any damage along the way :-( ] =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D IIIII =20 IIIIIII Rosemary Lyndall Wemm II(^ ^)II Perth, Western Australia II[_O"O_]II lyndall@haywire.DIALix.oz.au 0 ( i ) 0 http://haywire.dialix.com/~lyndall I [ w ] I =20 \_/ =20