Re: [OT] UK keyboard and PHP

From: John (duc_at_ula.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:35:24 +0100

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:09:26 +0100, A strange species called Andy
Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:45:57 -0400, "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Just out of curiosity, how do people in the UK code in PHP? Doesn't the UK
>>keyboard layout have the pound sign when the US layout has the dollar sign?
>
> Dollar is shift-4 on a UK keyboard. Pound is shift-3. Hash is on the right
>hand side, one right from single quote.
>
> Although this also might be another UK - US difference; I've seen # (hash)
>referred to as the "pound sign" for some reason, whereas the pound sign is £.
>
> Here's a picture, although the ~/# key is a row too high on this picture
>compared with all the UK keyboard's I've used.
>
> http://www.datacal.com/dce/catalog/english-uk-layout.htm

The only other difference I can think of is the @ sign and " double
quotations are in opposite places for US and UK keyboards. Whenever
I'm in the US and try and put the double quotes in I get an @ symbol
instead and vice versa.

Do you have the euro sign in the US on your keyboards? It now shares
number 4 for with the dollar sign for us. you have to do a ctrl, alt
and 4 to get it.

John

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