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From: dik@zuring.uucp (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so... (currency symbols)
Message-ID: <274@zuring.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 22:43:29 EST
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In article <840@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP writes:
>
>What if you want to correspond with someone in Japan?  Where should the yen
>sign be?  (A yen sign is a capital Y with a line through it).  Should the
>character set contain all three symbols, just in case?
>
Japanese Yen symbol is in a position different from dollar and pound.

>How do you guys in Europe handle this problem?  Each of the national character
>sets has a symbol for the currency of its own country, doesn't it?
>
Eh, no.  For instance Dutch Guilder (our currency) is generally abbreviated
to 'hfl' (a clear and succinct abbreviation).  Further, the Portuguese Escudo
is '$' (but 1$00 is not the same as $1.00), and Italian Lire is 'lit.'.
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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