Typing british pound sterling currence symbol on MacBookPro purchased in US

I purchased my MacBookPro in the US and I am now in england and want to type a pricing sheet with prices in british pounds sterling. But, so far, I have not been able to figure out how. Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Pove

You can change your 'input' source temporarily or permanently in the system preferences > International tab.
Under Formats choose your Region for the current area and documents and that will provide correct time, date and currency and numbering.
Under Input Menu, you can choose to keep the various input sources that you want to use in the menu bar for easy switching.
Also, the Input Menu allows you to set the menu bar item to show various input sources that you want as options for your data and documents as well as showing the "Keyboard Viewer" and Character Palette.
You can choose to allow different input sources for each document or one input source for all.
You can use keyboard shortcuts to choose input or you can choose from the dropdown menu which is then set in the menubar.
Check out the International tab options; they provide great customisation of your system.

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Please excuse my long-windedness ... I'm simply trying to answer all possible questions up front and give the most possible information. I've searched through tons of forums and all over various sites and references and am not able to come up with a concrete solution to this. I'd appreciate any help anyone has.
I'm having some trouble with character sets and international currencies.
Our server was recently upgraded from Red Hat 7.3 to Red Hat 8.0. I understand that the default system encoding thus changed from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8. I have verified this by executing the following:
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    String p = System.getProperty("file.encoding");
    System.out.println(p);
}I have two machines, one which represents the old system (7.3) and one representing the new (8.0), which I will call machine73 and machine80 respectively.
[machine73:~]# java WhichEncoding
ISO-8859-15
[machine80:~]# java WhichEncoding
UTF-8I have also verified that the JVM is using the correct default character set by executing the following:
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
public class WhichCharset {
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}which yields:
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ISO-8859-15
[machine80:~]# java WhichCharset
UTF8Here comes the problem. I have the following piece of code:
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Locale;
public class TestPoundSterling
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        System.out.println(nf.format(1.23));
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However, when I execute it on machine80, I see a capital A with a circumflex (carat) preceding the British Pound Sterling and the 1.23. The hex editor shows [C2 A3 31 2E 32 33 0A].
I looked up these hexadecimal values:
Extended ASCII
0xC2 = "T symbol"
0xA3 = lowercase "u" with grave
ISO-8859-1
0xC2 = Capital "A" with circumflex (carat)
0xA3 = British Pound Sterling
Unicode Latin-1
0x00C2 = Capital "A" with circumflex (carat)
0x00A3 = British Pound Sterling
(This explains why, when I remove /bin/unicode_start and reboot, I see a "T symbol" and "u" with a grave in place of what I saw before ... probably an irrelevant sidenote).
I found a possible answer on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8 under the Examples section. Apparently, a conversion between Unicode and UTF-8 acts differently based on the original Unicode value. Since the Pound Sterling falls between U-00000080 � U-000007FF (using the chart on the mentioned site), the conversion would be (as far as I can tell):
U-000000A3 = 11000010 10101001 = 0xC2 0xA3
This appears to be where the extra 0xC2 pops up.
Finally, to the whole point of this: How can I fix this so that things work as they should on machine80 like they did on machine73. All I want to see at the command line is the Pound Sterling. Getting the 0xC2 preceding the Pound Sterling causes some parts of my applications to fail.
Here's some additional information that might be of use:
[machine73:~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US.iso885915"
SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
SYSFONTACM="iso15"
[machine73:~]# echo $LANG
en_US.iso885915
[machine80:~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
[machine80:~]# echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8Any help is very, very much appreciated. Thanks.

you didn't look hard enough, this is a faq...
there three options:
1) change the system encoding by setting LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variables... assuming you use bash:bash$ export LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso88591 you can check the available locales with locale -a ... pipe it to grep en_GB to filter out the non-british english locales
-OR-
2) change the java default encoding from the command line with -Dfile.encoding... run with$ java -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 yourclass-OR-
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