Dollar sign ($) on foriegn keyboards? (prothon)

[Des Small]

"Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> writes:

> Can people from outside the U.S. tell me if typing the dollar sign often
> would be a problem in writing code?  Is it available and somewhat easy to
> type on international keyboards?

The dollar sign is used in extensively in Unix shells and Perl, which
are both widely used (Perl also on Windows).  It seems unlikely that
any keyboard with a latin alphabet wouldn't include it.

Des
types in a wide variety of dollar-equipped iso encodings.
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