- From: Tim Bagot <timothy.bagot@keble.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:57:23 +0100 (BST)
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Carrasco Benitez Manuel wrote: > > I wish, however, that you had targeted the currency symbol rather than > > the vertical bar for replacement; the idea that a currency symbol > > without > > specifying which currency it refers to had any value whatsoever is > > even less realistic than the idea of modifying ASCII to fit the Euro. ... > > I would rather prefer is all the system run from today in Unicode. > > But as much as we dislike it, 7 bits system will be here in ten years > > and not taking a decition on the euro is worst. I agree that the universal currency symbol is much less useful than the vertical bar. I do not believe that it is necessary to put the symbol in the 7-bit character set - the pound sign, for instance, is found only in the 8-bit set, along with a lot of accented letters, which are much more important to the Europeans than the Euro symbol, which can if necessary just be replaced by the letter E without confusion. Tim Bagot
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