Pound sign

The characters pounds ( ₤ also possible) is a symbol of currencies of different countries whose currency name from the Latin word for "pound ", libra ( pl. " Librae ") derives. The character was buoyed by the initial letter L of the word " libra ". The most popular currencies that use the currency symbol or used are the British pound (£ ) and up to 1999, the Italian Lira ( primarily as ₤ ) and the Irish pound (£).

Unlike the British or Swiss keyboard layout, the symbol is on the not directly accessible to Germany. Under Windows, the character by pressing Alt 156 can be entered. Mac OS X users, type the character by pressing Alt Shift 4, on some Linux systems to get it with Alt Shift 3 Access to the characters pounds at the Swiss keyboard is done by shift $.