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Harbo

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I have just noticed that working on the "Dark Side" (Windows XP) via VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, the Pound Sign now gives a Hash.
I have set up the correct country settings in XP (to UK) but it has made no difference. It happens whatever software I am using.
The keyboard is fine on the "Mac side"?
Can anybody help?

Rod :?
 
Rod,
if I want a # hash I need to type alt3 so try that and see what happens

Andy
 
deedee

Sorry, that did not work - it gives a blank nothing!
Alt 3 does give a hash on the Mac side #

Rod


Going through the alt keys on the Mac side:
€#¢∞§¶•ªº–≠
œ∑´®†¥¨^øπ“‘åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ«Ω≈ç√∫~µ≤≥÷`
 
Harbo":3j1bfr99 said:
deedee

Sorry, that did not work - it gives a blank nothing!
Alt 3 does give a hash on the Mac side #

Rod


Going through the alt keys on the Mac side:
€#¢∞§¶•ªº–≠
œ∑´®†¥¨^øπ“‘åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ«Ω≈ç√∫~µ≤≥÷`

change the xp keyboard to UK rather than US, # should appear.

Steve
 
Had to dig deep within XP to find where you could change the keyboard settings to UK - I had already changed the regional settings to UK.

£ sign now working but @ now giving " and vice versa - cannot win them all?
Mac keyboard is laid out differently to MS ones?

Rod
 
Are there any settings for the virtual machine (vm fusion settings)?
Parallels installs a Apple keyboard which does a good mapping - imagine something similar in Fusion. Have you installed the virtual machine additions? Just guesses since haven't got Fusion installed - only Parallels.
Cheers
Gidon
 
Gideon - Thanks, I found it under "Preferences and key board mapping".
It did the Mac short-cut key strokes automatically but the @ & " I had to do manually.
Now all working properly.

Rod :)
 
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