Where's the £ sign on phone, T-Mobile USA Topup query

It's the "Hash" Key #

-- Nige

Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a pound, crazy I know!

Probably because they pound on it.

Thomas

Not quite as bad as BT calling it "Square" and someone else calling it "Gate". I believe the technical name for the character is Octothorpe, named after a Mr. Thorpe.

To add to the confusion, in the days before international character sets and code pages, the £ (UK currency) symbol was often displayed on UK equipment for the American ASCII code for the # (hash) (0x23).

That would be from its common usage to indicate pounds avoirdupois, as in a 10# bag of flour. Of course, that was "common usage" in the 19th and early 20th centuries; much less so the last few decades.

Many American cellphones have a $PEND key on them, although for some reason the manufacturers often leave off the P.

Somehow, I don't think that S£ has quite the same ring to it.

Thus spaketh Linc Madison:

Never ever seen pounds avoirdupois indicated by # only ever lb, and I can't even remember seeing a bag of flour that had any mention of lbs on it anyway, though I am only in my 30s, so only ever remember seeing flour bagged in kg.

Spound/Spounds?! :-)

-- Neil

It is what we call hash or gate - below the "9".

Do they use the # key when referring to pounds weight? (like we use lbs)?

I'm sure such items have only been marked in metric for the last 10-15 years. Where were you before that :-)

Thus spaketh k:

Going to be over 15 years, more like over 20 years, even as a child I remember buying 2litre bottles of pop, and all the tins of food were in grammes. Everything I remember has being in metric except when buying food loose, and that has changed now!