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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Currency symbols
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 14:54:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 14:54:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Sep-87 14:54:32 EDT
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>		if fome mechanical geniuf had invented a way to do the
>		big letter "f" fenfibly we'd probaby still be ufing it.

If you look at an italic lowercase F, you will see the character you
allude to with a small horizontal stroke across it.  That is to say,
there is no mechanical problem with doing it.  It's simply fallen out
of use.

(This is one place, incidentally, where an italic font is *not* just a
slanted roman font.)
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"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry