Presumably they wanted to have the pound sterling symbol more naturally available, so they swapped the sterling and the # mappings -- option-3 vs shift-3. It would have made more sense for them to have mapped the sterling symbol to shift-4, where the dollar sign is.

-- Peter

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On Oct 23, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:


Well thanks to this thread at least I found out where the # key went on the UK Mac keyboards, which maybe might come in handly one day. Its surreal to have it be alt + 3 unmarked. How on earth are you supposed to know that?
I guess you have to read the Human Interface Guidelines?
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