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...
