Re: Euro currency sign

John Clews wrote:
>
>Which standards bodies, and according to which standards/maintenance
>agencies are these allocated? I understood that ISO 3166 (which is
>the source of all other currency codes) does not include the 2-letter
>combination EU, and that the responsible committee (ISO/TC46/WG2,
>directly under ISO/TC46) and the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency voted
>AGAINST including codes for the European Union and other
>international organizations in this standard.

ISO 3166 is not the source of currency codes.  ISO 4217 is.  It is true 
that most currency codes allocated by ISO 4217 have a ISO 3166 country code 
as their first two characters.  This is not, however, universally so.

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