On 2003.07.13, 00:19, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote me
off list, but the I guess this is marginally interesting for all:
At 21:54 +0100 2003-07-12, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
This symbol is called in Portuguese _cifrão_, and most people don't
really know that it is also used
On 2003.07.14, 23:30, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about the symbol $:
Actually, people do (or did) not saw that symbol as a _escudo_ sign,
but rather as a common symbol for money and related subjects.
And I'm keeping an eye on how will this evolve as the euro and its
On 2003.07.08, 01:34, Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With the Euro, a lot of currency units lost their symbol:
- the Spanish Peseta symbol
- the Pound symbol in Ireland ...
- the Greek Drachme symbol ...
- the Italian Lira symbol ...
- the French Franc symbol ...
The symbol $
Asmus wrote:
Unicode assigns the general category value, Sk, or Symbol, [k]urrency
to all characters whose *primary* function is to act as a currency symbol.
recte: Sc, or Symbol, [c]urrency
Sk is for Symbol, modifier, referring basically to spacing accents
and other similar
On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:35 AM, Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Would Euro also be a (four-character) currency sign?
Certainly not: this would be a word, whose orthograph varies with language.
See the banknotes, where it is written in Greek
* Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-08 02:34]:
With the Euro, a lot of currency units lost their symbol:
- the Greek Drachme symbol (or is it really only a currency symbol or
an alternate form of the Delta?)
I don't think the glyph shown in the Unicode charts (a cursive ) was
very
On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:58 AM, Alexandros Diamantidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-08 02:34]:
With the Euro, a lot of currency units lost their symbol:
- the Greek Drachme symbol (or is it really only a currency symbol
or an alternate form of
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:35 AM, Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Would Euro also be a (four-character) currency sign?
Certainly not: this would be a word, whose orthograph varies with
language. See
Thomas Chan schreef:
Would Euro also be a (four-character) currency sign?
No, that's not a sign, just a name, like Dollar or Pfennig or
Rijksdaalder.
The original question was about characters, though.
I saw nobody answered the question with when it has a general
category of Sc. Am I missing
But what does one do for a script like Han characters where
those tests
don't apply? e.g., in Chinese, U+938A is used for 'pound'--is that a
word, or a currency sign? U+5713 or U+5143 for 'yuan'? Etc.
Are they invented exclusively for the purpose of expressing the
currencies? I am not
Unicode assigns the general category value, Sk, or Symbol, [k]urrency
to all characters whose *primary* function is to act as a currency symbol.
That excludes all characters that have other, unrelated uses, as long as
those are not more specialized than the use as currency sign. That's an
I had a couple people comment on the currency page that U+5186 is not a yen
sign but a character.
I see it used regularly as a currency symbol instead of U+00A5.
Is there a distinction between the two?
When is a character properly called a currency sign?
The page has had a number of updates
At 15:03 -0400 2003-07-07, Tex Texin wrote:
When is a character properly called a currency sign?
Hunh? When you use it to represent currency. DM was two characters
used as a character sign in Germany.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
Forgot to copy to the list...
-Original Message-
From: Kurosaka, Teruhiko
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:44 PM
To: 'Tex Texin'
Subject: RE: When is a character a currency sign?
Hello Tex,
When is a character properly called a currency sign?
If a character is used EXCLUSIVELY
On Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:03 -0400 2003-07-07, Tex Texin wrote:
When is a character properly called a currency sign?
Hunh? When you use it to represent currency. DM was two characters
used as a character sign in Germany.
As well as
Philippe Verdy wrote:
XEU (the past European Currency Unit replaced by the Euro in a different
area of countries excluding GB and DK,
Also excluding SE.
Stefan
There are lots of ways to indicate a currency, but I wouldn't think of EUR or
the other three character codes listed in this note as signs. (Although the
ISO 4217 3-letter codes replace where signs were previously used, in most
cases.)
tex
Philippe Verdy wrote:
On Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41
On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:57 AM, Stefan Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote:
XEU (the past European Currency Unit replaced by the Euro in a
different area of countries excluding GB and DK,
Also excluding SE.
Sorry, I should have named it. But has ever Sweden (and
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
On Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:03 -0400 2003-07-07, Tex Texin wrote:
When is a character properly called a currency sign?
Hunh? When you use it to represent currency. DM was two characters
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