Where's the Ł sign on phone, T-Mobile USA Topup query

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LED Man

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Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in UK, the
new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any idea which key
this is ??

On my domestic BT phone that is


TIA
 
LED Man typed:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in UK, the
new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any idea which key
this is ??

On my domestic BT phone that is


TIA
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It's the "Hash" Key #

--
Nige
 
Thus spaketh Nigel:
LED Man typed:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in UK,
the new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any idea
which key this is ??

On my domestic BT phone that is


TIA

It's the "Hash" Key #
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Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a pound,
crazy I know!
 
{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:

Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a pound,
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Probably because they pound on it.


Thomas
 
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:06:37 GMT, LEDMan@3v.invalid (LED Man) wrote:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in UK, the
new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any idea which key
this is ??

On my domestic BT phone that is


TIA
Click to expand...
It is what we call hash or gate - below the "9".


--
Peter Williams
 
Linc Madison wrote:
In article <38du7hF5mv9njU1@individual.net>, {{{{{Welcome}}}}}
bhx@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Thus spaketh Nigel:
LED Man typed:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in
UK, the new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any
idea which key this is ??

It's the "Hash" Key #

Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a
pound, crazy I know!

That would be from its common usage to indicate pounds avoirdupois, as
in a 10# bag of flour. Of course, that was "common usage" in the 19th
and early 20th centuries; much less so the last few decades.

Many American cellphones have a $PEND key on them, although for some
reason the manufacturers often leave off the P.

Somehow, I don't think that SŁ has quite the same ring to it.
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Spound/Spounds?!
:)
--
Neil
 
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:54:20 -0000, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
<bhx@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a pound,
crazy I know!

Do they use the # key when referring to pounds weight? (like we use
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lbs)?
 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:10:24 -0000, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
<bhx@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


Never ever seen pounds avoirdupois indicated by # only ever lb, and I can't
even remember seeing a bag of flour that had any mention of lbs on it anyway,
though I am only in my 30s, so only ever remember seeing flour bagged in kg.
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I'm sure such items have only been marked in metric for the last 10-15
years. Where were you before that :)
 
Thus spaketh k:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:10:24 -0000, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
bhx@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:



Never ever seen pounds avoirdupois indicated by # only ever lb, and
I can't even remember seeing a bag of flour that had any mention of
lbs on it anyway, though I am only in my 30s, so only ever remember
seeing flour bagged in kg.


I'm sure such items have only been marked in metric for the last 10-15
years. Where were you before that :)
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Going to be over 15 years, more like over 20 years, even as a child I remember
buying 2litre bottles of pop, and all the tins of food were in grammes.
Everything I remember has being in metric except when buying food loose, and
that has changed now!
 
{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:

Thus spaketh Nigel:
LED Man typed:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in UK,
the new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any idea
which key this is ??

On my domestic BT phone that is


TIA

It's the "Hash" Key #

Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a pound,
crazy I know!
Click to expand...
Not quite as bad as BT calling it "Square" and someone else calling it
"Gate". I believe the technical name for the character is Octothorpe,
named after a Mr. Thorpe.

To add to the confusion, in the days before international character sets
and code pages, the Ł (UK currency) symbol was often displayed on UK
equipment for the American ASCII code for the # (hash) (0x23).
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alexm at pobox dot com (No HTML) is that you have more chance of a
Running on GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) pleasant surprise.
GPG key 68F8 6270 available from hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de
 
In article <38du7hF5mv9njU1@individual.net>, {{{{{Welcome}}}}}
<bhx@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Thus spaketh Nigel:
LED Man typed:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in
UK, the new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any
idea which key this is ??

It's the "Hash" Key #

Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a
pound, crazy I know!
Click to expand...
That would be from its common usage to indicate pounds avoirdupois, as
in a 10# bag of flour. Of course, that was "common usage" in the 19th
and early 20th centuries; much less so the last few decades.

Many American cellphones have a $PEND key on them, although for some
reason the manufacturers often leave off the P.

Somehow, I don't think that SŁ has quite the same ring to it.

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This text constitutes actual notice as required in BPC 17538.45(f)(3).
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Thus spaketh Linc Madison:
In article <38du7hF5mv9njU1@individual.net>, {{{{{Welcome}}}}}
bhx@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Thus spaketh Nigel:
LED Man typed:

Trying to top up my USA T-Mobile (0044 card) Sim card whilst in
UK, the new automated Credit card system asks for the Ł sign, any
idea which key this is ??

It's the "Hash" Key #

Yeah, the Americans for some strange reason call the # (hash) key a
pound, crazy I know!

That would be from its common usage to indicate pounds avoirdupois, as
in a 10# bag of flour. Of course, that was "common usage" in the 19th
and early 20th centuries; much less so the last few decades.

Many American cellphones have a $PEND key on them, although for some
reason the manufacturers often leave off the P.

Somehow, I don't think that SŁ has quite the same ring to it.
Click to expand...
Never ever seen pounds avoirdupois indicated by # only ever lb, and I can't
even remember seeing a bag of flour that had any mention of lbs on it anyway,
though I am only in my 30s, so only ever remember seeing flour bagged in kg.
 
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