1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
12:45 p.m.
On Feb 1, 15:49, Frank McConnell wrote:
ObCC: so what did you UKans do to get your
funny-looking L on
computers, terminals, and printers imported from ASCII-speaking
countries?
It's character 0xA3 (decimal 163, octal 243) in ISO Latin 1, and most
systems that don't have a special key for it map it to the "#" key. On
older systems, quite often the drivers replace the "#" character with the
pound symbol, but some replace the "$".
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York