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From: craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Re: I hate to say I told you so... (currency symbols)
Message-ID: <951@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 06:23:22 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.951
Posted: Wed Jan 29 06:23:22 1986
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Reply-To: craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie)
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In article <202@kvvax4.UUCP> skl@kvvax4.UUCP (S|ren K. Lundsgaard) writes:
>Isn't it fairly standard to use a two or three letter code for
>currency?  Here in Norway, we use NOK, which means Norwegian Kroner,
>and I think that Danish Kroner are DKK.  United States of America
>dollars are abbreviated US$.  Not much except US means US.
>
Cerainly all Euro Cheques use standard 3 character codes for all
currencies. The British pound is GBP to avoid confusion with the lire
which uses the same symbol (pound sign not available on this
keyboard :-)).



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