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zaphod <none@none.com> writes:

>>  When this £ is typed and appears as a box, can position
>> the cursor on it and type 'C-u C-x ='? 
>
> Here's the result:
>
>  character: £ (04243, 2211, 0x8a3, U+00A3)
>     charset: latin-iso8859-1 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC
> 8859-1): ISO-IR-100.)
....
>     display: no font available

There is your problem. The £ key is inserting the right character, but
Emacs does not know how to display it. I'm not familiar with Mac, but
I think you need to define a fontset to get mac-roman fonts mapped to
the correct characters in latin-1 etc.