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    A receipt from NYR. They can't print the pound sign!

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    1. Nicholas Clark (81 months ago | reply)

      $ perl -MEncode -le 'print decode "cp437", "£"'
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      Looks like their till system is running in ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15 or ug Windows code page 1252) but their printer thinks that it's being sent code page 437 (the classic DOS code page). And no-one is clueful enough to fix it. You trust them to sell you software?

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