Re: $ =>GBP
From Eric D. Rossman <ros...@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
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· 16 Feb 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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It just may have been Rosemary Lyndall Wemm (lyn...@haywire.DIALix.COM) who wrote: : On 12 Feb 1996, Judah A. Libin wrote: : > Does anyone know how display the Ascii equivilent of The british pound : > if for US dollars it is $ how do I represent this for Pounds? : It depends on which Language Code Page your computer has been set up to : use. You get to choose this at Set-Up when you first start your : computer. Consult your User's Manual to see how to access it now. : The American set is Code Page 437, the Mulitlingual set is Code Page 850, : the Portuguese set is Code Page 860, the Canadian-French set is Code Page : 863 and the Nordic set is Code Page 865. : Luckily the ASCII code for the pound is available in all these sets and : it's also the same ASCII code: 156. If you hold down the ALT key and type : this number on the Number Key Pad you may get a pound sign on your screen. : That works in the middle of my word-processing programme on my PC but : won't work while I'm typing on the InterNet through a terminal programme. : For instance, if I were to try it now I would find myself logged out :-) : You will probably find the same is true for you. : - RLW : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Rosemary Lyndall Wemm Rosemary from DownUnder _--_|\ : Clinical Neuro-psychologist lyn...@haywire.DIALix.oz.au Perth / \ : Perth, Western Australia ber...@perth.DIALix.oz.au -->\_.--._/ : ------------------- http://haywire.dialix.com/~lyndall -----------------v- It also depends on if you're even using a PC. If you were using a UNIX system, the answer would be much different than on a PC. Eric Rossman -- The ideas are mine and mine alone. If you want to use one, feel free. Just remember that I'll be watching.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,aa3de2e3bd66fb1e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ros...@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Eric D. Rossman) Subject: Re: $ =>GBP Date: 1996/02/16 Message-ID: <4g25qb$h2...@library.erc.clarkson.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 139739665 references: <4fo4t2$bu...@panix3.panix.com> <Pin...@haywire.DIALix.COM> organization: Clarkson Univ. ERC Student Consulting newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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