Hi - I replaced the dead keyboard on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with a Thai keyboard, bought from Panthip.

All's OK except something that seems weird. With the UK keyboard active in XP, the UKP is at shift 3 position, where hash shows on the new keyboard.

Even with the UK keyboard active in windows XP, shift 3 still shows hash.

It suggests to me that the keyboard hardware itself is outputting a different signal to the original kb?

I had to install a key board re-mapper so that shift 3 outputs unicode x'00A3' (UKP) rather than unicode x'0023' (hash).

Can anyone expain this for me?

Cheers

No,

But for anyone trying to get the UK pound sign hold the left hand alt key and press 156 on the NUMERIC key pad and then let the alt key go.

Of course that doesn't work on a laptop with no numeric key pad. I'll go back and sit in the corner.

Of course I assume you have the UK set as language and Keyboard? (Control Panel - regional and language options - languages - details)

Don't forget that the UK keyboard has one key more than the US/Thai keyboard. If you map the US keyboard as a UK keyboard you don't get the - now is it the / or the \ key?