Display British pound sign 3

[kasparov]

Can anyone offer any advice about how I can display a British pound sign from my Unix machine?

I'm assuming the solution lies somewhere in my terminal emulator but I'm not sure where to look (there's nothing in the emulator help.) Perhaps there is a key/hex combination which might display as a pound?

As usual - all advice appreciated.

Chris

 

[mrregan]

echo "\0243" should produce a british pound sign but your terminal emulator would need the proper character set.

 

[michaelvv]

Try running this little script:
#!/bin/ksh
typeset -Z3 NUM=32
while [ $NUM -lt 256 ]
do
echo "\0$NUM $NUM"
NUM=$((NUM+1))
done>chars

It will create a file called chars with the octal values for all single byte characters. If you find the british pound there (left column) then the right column has the corrresponding octal value. On my terminal is octal 243, I suspect it is the same on yours. To know for sure, try:

echo "\0243"

Good luck

 

[kasparov]

Excellent advice as usual.

Thank you