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From: ercm20@castle.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson)
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Subject: Re: filename separators and option indicators
Summary: British use hash for Pound Sterling sign
Keywords: separator, delimiter,#,$,pound,sterling
Message-ID: <4525@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 90 11:51:58 GMT
References: <8687@cs.utexas.edu> <150@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> <BZS.90May23210652@world.std.com> <1990May30.045903.14249@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990May30.045903.14249@agate.berkeley.edu> dankg@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Kogai) writes:
>	And I think that apply to other Indo-European language character sets 
>also (Suppose British uses starling figure for the place of backslash?)

Nope, the standard place to put a pound sterling sign (a curly 'L' with
a '-' or '=' through it) is where the '#' usually is.  On most keyboards
here that's shifted 3.  Some keyboards put it in place of grave '`'
('back-quote'). 

Sam Wilson
Edinburgh University