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From: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Currency symbols (was someone hates to tell us something)
Message-ID: <879@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 22:42:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 22:42:55 1986
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Organization: (Studying CS at the) University of Uppsala, Sweden
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Summary: Sweden's currency symbol

In article <840@rtech.UUCP> of Sun, 26-Jan-86 17:26:41 GMT
jeff@rtech.UUCP writes:
>
>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?
>
The Swedish currency, the crown (krona) and <untransletable, but equivalent to
cent and pence> ( {o"}re), doesn't really have a symbol (and doesn't need one
either.) In Sweden three crowns fifty ore is written 3:50, and three crowns 3:-

When the currency is spelled out we write 3,50 kronor (Yes, we use a floating
comma, not a floating point.) the most commonly used abbreviations are kr and
skr, but the official abbreviation of kronor is SEK.

I think the currencysymbol is a circle with four 'rays'. It's sometimes known
as a sun.
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