Euro on old computers

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Feb 1 18:45:36 1999

On Feb 1, 15:49, Frank McConnell wrote:

> ObCC: so what did you UKans do to get your funny-looking L on
> computers, terminals, and printers imported from ASCII-speaking
> countries?

It's character 0xA3 (decimal 163, octal 243) in ISO Latin 1, and most
systems that don't have a special key for it map it to the "#" key. On
older systems, quite often the drivers replace the "#" character with the
pound symbol, but some replace the "$".

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

Received on Mon Feb 01 1999 - 18:45:36 GMT