Same on my PC.
"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Louis, the euro symbol did not display properly in
> either Netscape nor in Kmail on my linux system. I see your message was
> sent in ISO 8859-1 but both programs show me a strange symbol (circle
> with four radiating lines at 045, 135, 225, and 315 degrees). The
> message source says that the character that was sent was "=A4". I
> notice that $ is a shift-4 on my US keyboard and wonder if that's what
> A4 indicates?
>
> Jim
>
> On Friday 29 June 2001 1707, Louis JOURDAN wrote:
> > At 16:09 -0400 01/06/29, Nat Hager III wrote:
> > >Interesting article on the logistics of Euro-conversion, from next
> > > week's Business Week International. Makes US metric conversion
> > > look like a walk in the park.
> >
> > Yeah... At least Euro-conversion is thoroughly prepared, whilst the
> > US metric conversion...
> >
> > Seriously, don't give too much credit to this article. Euro is
> > already a reality for many people, and conversion will go smoothly.
> > If some journalists want to make it a nightmare, that is their
> > problem.
> >
> > Interesting : do you know how I get the euro symbol ¤ with my new
> > MacOS (9.1) ? by typing "option-$". In other words the euro is just
> > an alternative to the dollar ?
> >
> > Louis
>
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