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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Feb 1996.
Re: Someone was looking for the � (British Pound) symbol...

Re: Someone was looking for the � (British Pound) symbol...

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        lyn...@haywire.DIALix.oz.au
  0 (  i  ) 0        http://haywire.dialix.com/~lyndall
  I  [ w ]  I =20
      \_/     =20

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From: Rosemary Lyndall Wemm <lyn...@haywire.DIALix.COM>
Subject: Re: Someone was looking for the � (British Pound) symbol...
Date: 1996/02/16
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to: Bob Allison <bob...@wwa.com>
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organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia.
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