Remapping keyboard for UK £ sign

[guy@macs2u.co.uk]

I discovered that running Parallels I was not able to produce the UK pound sign (£) using Shift-3 as it normally would on a UK keyboard. The alternative was to use Alt-0163 to enter it every time—aargh).

After a bit of sniffing around it looked like I could accomplish what I needed by remapping the # character to the £ character on the keyboard. I managed this with a keyboard remapping utility (I used this free one ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilmisc/klmlite.zip).

It brings up a picture of the existing US keyboard and you can simply replace the # sign with the £ sign. Save your results and restart Windows (not just log out and in again—my experience was that no change took place until after a restart).

From then on Shift 3 works as it normally would, producing a £ sign :-)

I'm happy to do a quick web-page of how I accomplished this, if that were useful to folks.

Guy Hemmings

[non-troppo]

Guy, I have the reverse problem; my UK Macbook running bootcamp and/or parallels has lost access to the octothorpe/hash (which is accesible using alt+3 normally). Would that utility work in that case? More details would be welcome in any case :) Thank you.

[non-troppo]

To answer myself, KLM works perfectly to solve the hash problems for UK Bootcamp users. There is a more recent version available from:

http://www.klm32.com/Download.html