Holger Metzger wrote:

>On 1/20/2002 8:12 AM Wolf Eichler spoke thusly:
>
>>Second, one thing must be clear: translating to "EUR" may not be a final 
>>solution but only intermediary. Other it would mean an offence against 
>>the Euroean currency - immagine "$" would be translated into "USD"!
>>
>The $ sign is part of us-ascii, IIRC.
>
Yes, it is.

Wolf, the $ symbol has been around for ages, while the Euro symbol has 
been invented a few years ago. I don't know, why we have these currency 
symbols at all - we lived fine with "DM" or "Mark" in the past.

Let's hope for Unicode becoming the standard...

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