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smartyfants

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Original poster
Oct 10, 2008
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Canadia
Hi all -

Scratching my head on a problem I have run into, and hoping someone can help me.

I am trying to get the £ symbol to work on my MB. When I have my intl prefs set to US, I should be able to hit option-3 to get the symbol. It does not work. Interestingly, when I open keyboard viewer and hit the key combo (option-3), I can see that the keystrokes register properly in through the hardware (the right keys light up in KV), but the symbol does not appear.

It seems there is some conflict in this functionality, and I am not sure where to look!

If I set my keyboard to British, I can use shift-3 to get a pound symbol, but it is kind of a pain to switch back and forth.

Thanks in advance for any guidance, ideas, or alternative suggestions!
 
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