[oneeyedpigeon]

IF those characters are actually displayed on the corresponding keys. If it's like the # on the Mac keyboard - not displayed anywhere - it's a right pain to learn in the first place without any visual cues.

[egypturnash]

I'm looking at a couple Macs sitting around the house and they all have a pretty obvious # right above the 3. Perhaps you mean some other key?

(I do really miss the days when Mac keyboards had the weird symbol they use for "alt" in menus on the key.)

[oneeyedpigeon]

Which keyboard do you have? The standard aluminium full size one doesn't label it, at least in the uk

[spolster]

On US Mac keyboards, # is Shift-3. On UK Mac keyboards Shift-3 is the Pound (Sterling) sign. # becomes Alt-3 and is unlabelled on the keyboard.

In the past, I've bought US Mac keyboards just for the #, or switched the keyboard layout in software to US.

[oneeyedpigeon]

I've become used to the alt-3 combo now, but it took a long time. I type # a lot more than I ever type £. $, too.

[egypturnash]

All my machines have US keyboards.