Iain URQUHART writes: > > Replacing the vertical bar would be an IT disaster to make the > > year 2000 look nice. > > > I agree. Let's take '$' instead. Why not the @ sign. Wouldn't it be great "dissemination" if everybody had a Euro sign in their e-mail address. > Seriously, banks commonly use standard alphabetic codes to represent currencies, BEF, GBP, DEM and so on. Why can't the Euro just do this in non Unicode environments? The Euro has the ISO 4217 code "EUR". regards, Gregor Erbach ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Erbach gregor.erbach@dfki.de DFKI GmbH phone: +49 681 302 5288 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 fax: +49 681 302 5338 D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany http://www.dfki.de/~gorReceived on Wednesday, 15 October 1997 08:18:04 UTC
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