Pat, in you test, this is what comes out here.
Before the 10 is the dollar (The S with one
vertical slash- $$$) and before the 20 is a J (JAY).
When Oliver St. John sent me a test I got a dollar sign
and the pound sign (a scripted L with a cross bar) .
Top confound matters further, when you call someone here
who has "Voice mail", the little voice will ask you to punch in the required
number "followed by the POUND sign", which is the bottom row, rightmost button
of the three on the phone keypad. However that is NOT the "POUND" sign I
know. It IS the NUMBER SIGN, {Three of which follow
###) consisting of two parallel lines crosshatched by two vertical
lines, the old TIC-TAC-TOE game matrix, or shouldn't I bring that
up?
I won't even mention the "CENT" sign, a C with a vertical
slash. That isn't on my keyboard either.
I tried the formula suggested by Panda Ted but got no
character at all.
This is too complicated for
me.
Jos Gregory
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Powell
To: nandjgregory(a)earthlink.net
Cc: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: 4/29/01 2:46:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] AHA!
Hi Joe
I get a dollar sign. what do you get if I type a dollar sign?
I am putting at the end og this 10 dollars followed by 20 ounds
sterling.
Tell me what you get.
$10
?20
Cheers
Pat
In message 412001402919128200(a)earthlink.net ,
Joseph Gregory
nandjgregory(a)earthlink.net
writes
I got a note from Mr. Rowland in Connecticut, explaining why
the letter J "JAY" appears as the sign for the British pound in my
E-mail. But
his explanation made no sense until I realized what he was
saying. Because he couldn't represent the pound sign in his message the
confusion was confounded. At last the light went on.
When someone in Britain indicates the price for something and
uses the pound sign, the "L" with the slash, it shows up in the U.S. as
the
letter "JAY" since the space has to be represented by something.
I bet you folks who have the pound sign on your keyboards
couldn't figure what I was talking about, asking about the letter "J".
One of
life's great mysteries has at last been solved.
BUT, mystery #2.7:
What do YOU folk get when we Yanks type a "dollar sign "
as in $41.99 (forty-one dollars and ninety-nine
cents)?
Jos. Gregory
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