If you want a Webster's Dictionary or a keyboard with dollar signs, the USA is a good place to buy them.
Dollar sign on Keyboards.
If you want A Japanese, Russian, Greek or Hebrew keyboard, those countries would have the biggest choice of keyboards already in their language.
You can swich your keybaord in settings, but how do you remember which key to press? You need to buy an overlay of the right keyboard. Or print one out, as a temporary measure.
On my Samsung phone, I simply click on the key showing the globe, and up pops the Hebrew language I set when I was trying to learn Hebrew on Duolingo.
The Globe Symbol
Once, long after I had given up trying to learn Hebrew, I must have accidentally tapped on the globe key. Everything went into Hebrew and I had no idea why. I was in shock, in panic, in despair. Fortunately, my husband knew what the problem was. He just tapped on the globe symbol and magically my keyboard was back to normal.
Dollar and Pound Signs On Keyboards
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When buying a laptop overseas, or at home, note whether the keyboard has dollar signs or pound signs on the keyboard. America uses dollars. On my Dell keyboard, the dollar sign is above the number 4.
So does Singapore. In Singapore you add the capital leter S before the dollar sign, S$.
To Change Keyboard Signs
If you are technically minded, you can go into settings and re-configure any key on your keyboard. We did this once when the key for full stop was stuck. We switched it with the colon which was rarely used. For several days I instinctively used the full stop key with no result. So we found that you need to print and stick on the new sign on the key.
Then one day we cleaned the keyboard with a blower. The Key must have been jammed by a microscopic piece of grit, or toast. We removed the sticker, then reconfigured the keyboard settings back to the way they were originally.
To Show Pound Signs On Laptop Keyboards
I have a Dell laptop which has dollar signs. To show pounds I can list them as GBP, as is done by some websites. I sometimes do that here in blogspot. You read my posts in blogspot where they are read-only and cannot be altered. I create posts in blogger with a passcode.
EDITING ON A PHONE
However, I can also use my Samsung phone which was bought in the UK. This has pound signs. So I can create posts on my phone with the pound signs. Alternatively, create posts on my laptop, then edit on my phone to insert the pound signs.
Keyboard Characters' Numbers
If you have a separate numeric keyboard, you can type in the codes for certain characters which you use frequently. My husband has a list of those he uses a lot. But he knows off by heart the numbers he uses frequently. For example 0163 is the pound sign. For French and some other languages, the acute accent used frquently on the letter e is 0233.
The answers to most keyboard changes are found in your laptop manual online, or Youtube, or Quora, or Wikihow. AI nowadays often quotes wiki.
Another way to find out is to pop into a laptop or phone shop. Even if they don't sell your brand of laptop or phone, if they are not busy, some helpful extravert sales person will probably be happy to show you.
If you are stuck, and in a shopping mall, make for a McDonalds or Costa where a group of schoolchildren are doing homework on their laptops. You might not want to release your phone to somebody walking in the street, but a group stuck like sardines might be a safer bet.
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