# Review Notes - Pound Sign £ Issue fixed **URL:** \ **Category:** TaxCycle General\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759 "2025-01-20T04:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Customer555](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Customer555](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Customer555)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/1 "2025-01-20T04:05:58Z")
Recently I noticed the pound sign besides certain review notes. At first, I thought that it was some issue after I updated the software an that it would be fixed eventually. However, after a couple of weeks it didn’t disappear and hence I started reading more about it. It was recommended by Taxcycle and other users to edit the shortcuts to add certain phrases in there. Unfortunately it didn’t work for me. I played with a number of Language settings and it looks like the issue on my end was caused by the “Windows display language” setting set to English (Canada). Once i changed it to “English (United States)” the symbols show properly again. I currently have all 5 settings (Windows display, apps/websites, regional format, keyboard and speech) set to English (United States) and it works properly. Hope it helps for now and lets hope the team finds what the issue is because if we start having it on the English US setting I will be hopeless. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![kevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@kevin](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/kevin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/2 "2025-01-20T15:00:09Z")
I guess someone should let MS know that Canada is a different country than the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Versa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Versa](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Versa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/3 "2025-01-20T16:05:45Z")
I have had this issue since I started using taxcycle years ago. I have called support in the past to try to fix it but it just keeps coming back so now I just live with it. ---
**Author:** ![obhorst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e57/32.png) [@obhorst](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/obhorst)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/4 "2025-01-20T16:47:04Z")
I just shrug my shoulders and don’t print anything with currency symbols. ---
**Author:** ![Nezzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/nezzer/32/3845_2.png) [@Nezzer](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Nezzer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/5 "2025-01-20T22:16:00Z")
> [@kevin](#): > > someone should let MS know that Canada is a different country Tried. They got all flustered. Like they were being invaded by aliens. I don’t think they know that anything exists outside of USA… ---
**Author:** ![Nezzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/nezzer/32/3845_2.png) [@Nezzer](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Nezzer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/6 "2025-01-20T22:18:48Z")
Like @Versa , I’ve had this issue for many years (though it didn’t show up for the first year or two). But, the /EN switch still seems to work for me - add it to the “Target” field in the shortcut properties: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/taxcycle/original/2X/a/a55564cd5760aea148eb1e316806e3050b7a346b.png) ---
**Author:** ![AlbertaEFileT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@AlbertaEFileT](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/AlbertaEFileT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/7 "2026-03-05T21:58:25Z")
Anyone else suddenly having this issue again after the latest TaxCycle update? Tried the language stuff, editing the target path, everything is right in the module/settings. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯ ---
**Author:** ![Arliss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/arliss/32/52_2.png) [@Arliss](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Arliss)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/8 "2026-03-05T22:07:45Z")
Nezzer’s solution should fix it. I find it changes back when you do the manual download from the website as opposed to applying the auto update. ---
**Author:** ![Nezzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/nezzer/32/3845_2.png) [@Nezzer](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Nezzer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/9 "2026-03-05T23:27:14Z")
Might be obvious, but to be sure: If you activate TaxCycle using a saved shortcut on your Windows task bar, or some other shortcut, you must update THAT shortcut. If you add the “/EN” switch to the Target field in one shortcut, it doesn’t automatically copy to every other shortcut. ---
**Author:** ![AlbertaEFileT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@AlbertaEFileT](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/AlbertaEFileT)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/10 "2026-03-06T00:50:00Z")
Did all that, still no dice ---
**Author:** ![Arliss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/arliss/32/52_2.png) [@Arliss](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Arliss)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/11 "2026-03-06T00:58:11Z")
> **[Pound Sign £ Displays in Review Messages](https://www.taxcycle.com/resources/help-topics/review-tools/pound-sign-displays-in-review-messages/)** > > How to solve the issue where TaxCycle is using the pound sign £ in place of the dollar sign $ in review messages. ---
**Author:** ![AlbertaEFileT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@AlbertaEFileT](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/AlbertaEFileT)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/review-notes-pound-sign-issue-fixed/9759/12 "2026-03-06T16:45:46Z")
Did all that. No dice