- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 30 Nov 1996 22:34:52 +0000 (GMT)
- To: walter@natural-innovations.com
- Cc: davidp@earthlink.net, www-html@w3.org, www-international@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org
>What's a florin? I know it's the old UK name for what was two >shillings, but Bill obviously means something else here. A florin is the curly-descender f like you see in mathematical f(x). Then that really is a florin: it's the Dutch currency symbol. I had no idea that Windoze had actually given it its real name :-) The math f(x) should use just a regular (implied italic) f. To use a non-f character makes the math harder to parse, as users searching databases for functions will search for a genuine f, not a NCR. ///Peter
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