A response to one part of your query. JAWS supplies a useful list of symbols, which includes the British pound. Press the JAWS key together with 4 on the number row above the letter keys to open the list. You can either arrow down the list or press the first letter of the symbol's name. "Pounds" is one of the symbols you'll find by pressing p three or four times. Once the symbol you want is highlighted, press enter. The list closes and you're returned to the text. The symbol is there. It won't be spoken, but you can give it a verbalization with the JAWS dictionary.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kane Brolin" <kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx>I have an unusual question. An answer to this would be "nice to have,"though it's unimportant to many:
I've recently discovered the English U.S. International keyboard language setting available from the Windows Control Panel. This might become very convenient for me to use in business writing, since I do sometimes make references to the British pound and the Euro, among other currencies. What I discovered is that in this keyboard layout, using the right-hand ALT key, I can make a British pound sign through use of ALT+SHFT+4, and I can make the Euro symbol with ALT+5. But when I try to express the currency denomination followed by an amount--as in $500, except in pounds or Euros--the rest of that expression is capitalized, so that the numerical value I want to write is expressed wrongly in symbols. Instead of expressing 350 British pounds, for instance, my attempt to do this results IN £#%) instead. It's as though my CAPS LOCK is invoked without my trying to invoke it.
Is this somehow related to JAWS? Or is there another way I can help Windows not be confused by numbers when the digits immediately follow a special character such as £ or €?
If anyone cares about this and has figured it out, thanks in advance for your help!
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