Keyboard problem
 

My friend's e-mail shows an * in place of the £ sign and the ' sign.
Can you asist please.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

Re: Keyboard problem
 

"Emrys Davies" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:6t62ufF9d5v5U1@mid.individual.net...
> My friend's e-mail shows an * in place of the £ sign and the ' sign.
> Can you asist please.
>
> Regards,
> Emrys Davies.
>
>
Set Keyboard to correct location

Re: Keyboard problem
 

"Emrys Davies" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:6t62ufF9d5v5U1@mid.individual.net...
> My friend's e-mail shows an * in place of the £ sign and the ' sign.
> Can you asist please.
>
> Regards,
> Emrys Davies.
>
>

Do you think it might increase the chances of you getting any help here just
a little bit if you mentioned what operating system, update status,
language, keyboard make/model your "friend" is having trouble with?

Do ya, hmmmm?

Re: Keyboard problem
 

"Sharp Dressed Man" <sdm@zz.net> wrote in message
news:gkkl4u$tqc$1@news.motzarella.org...
> "Emrys Davies" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:6t62ufF9d5v5U1@mid.individual.net...

>>
>>
>
> Do you think it might increase the chances of you getting any help here
> just a little bit if you mentioned what operating system, update status,
> language, keyboard make/model your "friend" is having trouble with?
>
> Do ya, hmmmm?
>
Do you have a lot of time on your hands Numbnuts?
Why would you need all that information to answer a "stock" question??
The ****in' mind boggles!

Re: Keyboard problem
 

Emrys Davies wrote:

> My friend's e-mail shows an * in place of the £ sign and the ' sign.
> Can you asist please.

Tell your friend to set his unknown email client to display mail using
the Character Encoding of UTF-8.

In Thunderbird, the setting (in my version) is located at:
Edit > Preferences > Display > Font button > Character Encodings

The ' sign is a standard character, and should display correctly with
any encoding. Currency symbols may not: $ ¢ £ ¤ ¥

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Re: Keyboard problem
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:47:11 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:

> One
> might even confuse the usage of the pound sign for currency with the
> number sign for pounds of weight.

There's no confusion on this side of the pond. '£' is a pound (currency)
sign and '#' is called a 'hash' sign.

I never knew that colonials used '#' instead of 'lbs.'. In what context
would the sign be used?



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Re: Keyboard problem
 

Aardvark wrote:

> Mike Easter wrote:
>> One might even confuse the usage of the pound sign for currency with
>> the number sign for pounds of weight.
>
> There's no confusion on this side of the pond. '£' is a pound
> (currency) sign and '#' is called a 'hash' sign.
>
> I never knew that colonials used '#' instead of 'lbs.'. In what
> context would the sign be used?

You might see that at a grocer's. (along with grocers apostrophe's)

APPLE'S 3# $2.98

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-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Re: Keyboard problem
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:43:51 -0500, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> (along with grocers apostrophe's)

There must be a few grocer's who visit the new's group's.



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of the keel of the most famous (or infamous) ocean liner of all time, RMS
Titanic, at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic>

Re: Keyboard problem
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:43:17 -0800, alan wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what does the word "hash" refer to?

****ed if I know.



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Titanic, at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
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Re: Keyboard problem
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:46:01 -1000, wetpixel wrote:

> In article <%Xmbl.286787$LM6.3428@newsfe03.ams2>, Aardvark
> <aardvark@youllnever.know> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:43:51 -0500, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>
>> > (along with grocers apostrophe's)
>>
>> There must be a few grocer's who visit the new's group's.
>
> Well, that was intended as an example. It is also used in construction,
> accounting, invoices, shipping, and more.


WHOOOOOOSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!



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of the keel of the most famous (or infamous) ocean liner of all time, RMS
Titanic, at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic>