£ vs #
My first job, in 1978, was to help design a "glass Teletype" for Data General. I was responsible for the keyboard and the character generators*. While perusing the various country-specific keyboard layouts, I was amused to discover that the "£" symbol replaced, not the "$" on the US keyboard, but the "#". "Pound", get it? I'll bet your LJ had the "American English" character set by default.
Fun, is going to Montreal for a customer's radiated emissions testing (at their request), and trying to send an email using an "AZERT" keyboard, because that's the way they do it in Quebec.
* I also did an APL variant, including overstrike capability
Biting the hand that feeds IT
