Re: Shift-3, pounds (British) and pounds (octothorpes)

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au> wrote:
> Played again with my Apple //e this afternoon - a lot of fun as always, 
> and wish I could find the time more often. I even got MacADT to run in 
> Classic on OS X with a Mini-iDock USB to serial converter on my 17" G4 
> PowerBook.
> 
> One question, though - the 3 key has both the # and British pound signs 
> on them, and when Shift-3 is pressed, it's the British pound sign which 
> is shown. Is there any way to get the # to display? The Apple //e model 
> # is A2S2064.

The //e has a hard-wired ASCII character set, which it appears was localized
to use the British pound sign for char 0x23 in the machine you have.  I
think you're stuck with pounds.

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