ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:10PM (#7477894)

IF those characters are actually displayed on the corresponding keys. If it's like the # on the Mac keyboard - not displayed anywhere - it's a right pain to learn in the first place without any visual cues.

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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by egypturnash on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:58PM (#7478505)

I'm looking at a couple Macs sitting around the house and they all have a pretty obvious # right above the 3. Perhaps you mean some other key?

(I do really miss the days when Mac keyboards had the weird symbol they use for "alt" in menus on the key.)

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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday March 27, 2014 @04:29AM (#7479183)

Which keyboard do you have? The standard aluminium full size one doesn't label it, at least in the uk

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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by spolster on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:45AM (#7479383)

On US Mac keyboards, # is Shift-3. On UK Mac keyboards Shift-3 is the Pound (Sterling) sign. # becomes Alt-3 and is unlabelled on the keyboard.

In the past, I've bought US Mac keyboards just for the #, or switched the keyboard layout in software to US.

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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday March 27, 2014 @06:35AM (#7479511)

I've become used to the alt-3 combo now, but it took a long time. I type # a lot more than I ever type £. $, too.

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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by egypturnash on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:33PM (#7481465)

All my machines have US keyboards.

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