iTunes will never work well

Re:iTunes will never work well by dTal on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:58AM (#12531051)

I had an SSH password once with a # character in it. I tried to log in from a friend's Macbook and was forced to ask him how to type this. Apparently it was Option-3. Completely unmarked. Astonishing. But hey, at least you can type §.

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Re:iTunes will never work well by cmiller1 on Monday September 19, 2016 @10:34AM (#12531727)

Huh? I have a Macbook Pro and a Microsoft keyboard on an old Win XP box right next to each other right now and they both, clearly labeled, have # above the "3" for shift-3

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Re:iTunes will never work well by ChoGGi on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:48PM (#12533220)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...

"The # symbol is replaced by the £ symbol (as on PC keyboards); the # is available by pressing ⌥ Option+3

More recent Apple British keyboards move the backquote/~ key to the left of the Z key and replace it with a section sign (§) and a plus-minus sign (±) respectively.

The Enter key spans two rows and is shaped similarly to the Enter key of many ISO PC keyboards."

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Re:iTunes will never work well by dTal on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:19PM (#12532558)

I believe this is because I live in the UK. Apple seems to have invented some kind of bizarre hybrid layout between the UK and US ones. Shift-3 is the £ symbol here.

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