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Post by Chewi » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:46 pm

This is just to let you know that it is now possible to use the euro symbol (¤) here. I don't think this was possible before. Though most of you don't even have that key on your keyboards. Heheh. If you don't, you can do it using a character map program (like charmap.exe).

And while I'm here, the British pound symbol is £ and not # as I keep shockingly hearing from people. Where you lot got that from, I have no idea. # is usually called a hash symbol and I don't know of any currency that uses it.
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Post by Vandire » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:54 pm

# is the metric pound chewi

£ is pound sterling, currency
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Post by Chewi » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:05 pm

Ah that's why they're getting confused. I've never used metric pounds before.
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Post by Vandire » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:07 pm

i blame my mom, used wierd ass things, like meters and inches, i still do that....not good

and i have no use for the euro symbol, cos its eeevil
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Post by berwick upon tweed » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:16 pm

I wonder, what could a metric pound be?
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Post by Squirrel » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:41 pm

berwick upon tweed wrote:I wonder, what could a metric pound be?

your so dumb! metric pund is a weight measurement you silly thing :P
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Post by Chewi » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:01 pm

Well duh. But I've never seen it used anywhere.
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Post by Squirrel » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:03 pm

don't call me duh! i didn't ask what the metric pound was!
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Post by Mik » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:25 pm

is that not represented by lbs ?
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Post by Chewi » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:28 pm

No that's the imperial pound, which I have used.
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Post by Morbid Angel » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:29 pm

I've been wondering this for a bit now, on your European keyboards, do they actually have the Euro sign on the 4 key instead of the dollar sign?
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Post by Chewi » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:31 pm

No we have the dollar sign. You have to press Alt Gr+4 for the euro. That's the only thing we have to press Alt Gr for at all but in other countries, they use it for a lot more things. French keyboards are like that. But French keyboards are the most annoying fucking things in the universe. Grrr.
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Post by Morbid Angel » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:34 pm

Why the hell do they put the dollar sign on there anyway, there's a shitload of countries that obviously don't use that sign. Doesn't make sense.
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Post by Vandire » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:53 pm

well...i guess i could blame microsoft......

¤ ooh...actualy works..cool...
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Post by Chewi » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:49 pm

The $ is used in just about every programming language there is so you find it on keyboards. Not always in that place though. On French keyboards, it's over to the right somewhere.
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