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From: dan@ttds.UUCP (Dan Sahlin)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so...
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 13:59:28 EST
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Reply-To: dan@ttds.UUCP (Dan Sahlin)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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Today I got more than 100 character sets (111 to be exact) officially
registered at ECMA in Switzerland.
It includes at least three different Swedish sets and lots of other
national sets. As far as I can see, the symbol denoting currency always
has a different position in the different standards. In Sweden we do not
use a special character for our currency "krona". Instead it is
either written as "kr" or - according to an international standard for
banking - "SEK". All currencies have a three letter abbreviation in this
standard, the first two characters being the country and the last the
name of the currency. Thus american dollars become "USD".

	Dan Sahlin              ..mcvax!enea!ttds!dan