- From: Daniel Glazman <Daniel.Glazman@der.edfgdf.fr>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:31:57 +0100
- To: rosenne@NetVision.net.il, pflynn@curia.ucc.ie
- Cc: davidp@earthlink.net, www-html@w3.org, www-international@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org
In message <1.5.4.32.19961130145612.00666044@mail.netvision.net.il> 30 Nov 1996 16:56:12, rosenne@NetVision.net.il wrote: > At 13:27 30/11/96 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: > > ISO8879 names for Windows CP 1252 80-9F (128-160) entities: > > > > 83 (131) -- ? -- florin > > > >What's a florin? I know it's the old UK name for what was two > >shillings, but Bill obviously means something else here. > > Florin is the Dutch Guilder, a.k.a. HFl and Gulden. It is derived from the > name of the city Florence, a.k.a. Firence, where banking was invented. Too > bad the Europeans are so confused. Like many other currencies (forint for instance). Well... "dollar" comes from "thaller" which used to be a weight of gold. Too bad the non-europeans are also so confused. And TMCB reminded us that the $ sign comes a spanish blazon... </Daniel>
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