Keyboard alt codes

[kkt]

What's wrong with lb? Oh, that's latin and far too high class for you Americans, yet perfectly acceptable for our salt of the earth market sellers.

Nothing's wrong with lb, it's just extra writing and extra space on the sign.  I don't believe either your grocers or ours are understanding the Latin, it's just a memorized abbreviation.

Credit? not at a market...

Most grocery stores here take credit cards.  Farmer's markets with stands set up temporarily generally don't.

[vtk]

I almost never see # actually used for pounds of weight. If I do see it, it seems more like a typographical cheat invented by someone who thought they were being clever.

[deathtopumpkins]

I've never once in my life ever seen "#" used as an abbreviation for "pounds" [weight]. ALWAYS "lb", and some stores either spell out "per pound" or don't even include that at all when it's obvious.

[english si]

Credit? not at a market...

Most grocery stores here take credit cards.  Farmer's markets with stands set up temporarily generally don't.

I was talking markets, not grocery stores.

Grocery stores will have typed signs, and only the big supermarkets have the economy of scale to have £/lb on them (as its extraneous info, due to the requirement to sell in metric weights).

lb, handwritten, would take up the same size as # if the hash wants to look like a hash rather than a badly drawn +. Plus UK signs have to have the kg, so two letters is no hardship

PS, to drag us back on topic - ≈ apparently has an alt code of 247, though I get ¸ with that code.

[kkt]

Credit? not at a market...

Most grocery stores here take credit cards.  Farmer's markets with stands set up temporarily generally don't.

I was talking markets, not grocery stores.

Ah, this is another definition problem.  Here, "market" is synonymous with "grocery store", and if we mean just the kind in tents that fold up and have no power, internet, or telephone lines with which to charge credit cards, we use the phrase "farmer's market".

[nexus73]

Alt+ does not work for me.  I hold down the ALT key, type in the + and the numbers. Nothing happens.  What am I doing wrong?

Rick

[english si]

You don't type the plus. You hold down Alt while typing the number - much as you would use shift+1234 to get !@#$ (and I would get !"£$).

You also have to use the number keys on the right of the keyboard, IIRC (doesn't work on my laptop which lacks them).

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kkt - separated by a common language!

[vtk]

You don't type the plus. You hold down Alt while typing the number - much as you would use shift+1234 to get !@#$ (and I would get !"£$).

Hey there, no need for profanity!

Seriously though, there ought to be a short video about how to enter "alt codes" on Windows machines...