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