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From: hwt@.bnr.ca (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Re: filename separators and option indicators
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Date: 1 Jun 90 13:57:14 GMT
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In article <1990May31.092357.16792@gdr.bath.ac.uk> exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:
>In article <1990May30.045903.14249@agate.berkeley.edu> dankg@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Kogai) writes:
>>also (Suppose British uses sterling figure for the place of backslash?)  Come
 
>Hardly important, but on (at least) most British ASCII terminals and
>printers which support the 'pounds sterling' currency symbol, it
>... Always have wondered why it didn't replace the dollarsign.

IBM specifies the $ as 'national currency symbol' in EBCDIC.  When we first
brought up a node in the U.K. there was great confusion as email across the
Atlantic transparently changed currency symbols.  Fortunately, you can
tweak the character table by esoteric modifications to VM/SP....

"That will cost $1,000,000" is vastly different from "That will cost #1,000,000"
--
Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
..uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 or  HWT@BNR.CA