Posted by Ed Kiser on July 25, 2005 at 20:07:32 from 205.188.116.6 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: £ symbol posted by Jon on July 25, 2005 at 15:43:38:
Too bad this computer business got all complicated with the variety of CODE PAGE character definitions. A document written with one definition in mind looks like garbage when interpreted with some different code page.
I have a WINDOWS PC Home Edition, set up for use in the USA with the American Keyboard. The ALT 156 does generate the £ symbol (which looks quite correct on my machine, but for others viewing this note, that symbol may be quite different.) I described what works for me. But even on my own system, if I have a document with that ALT 156 character in it, then use some other editor to view it, that character may have changed. The editor "EDIT" that comes with WINDOWS XP says the ALT 156 is the Pound symbol, but if that document is viewed with NOTEPAD, it is something else.
Too bad we have different ways of interpreting these characters.
Tower of Babel, revisited...
Ed Kiser, South Florida