----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Sarasvati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: The Currency Symbol of China
> So, my questions are: > > 1. Do you know which symbol is declared as the standard by Chinese official authorities ? Presumably U+FFE5 (fullwidth/全角) or U+00A5 (halfwidth/半角), if any. > 2. In China, the currency is called "Renminbi Yuan", why is it not included in Unicode > standard ? Instead of it, "Yen" is being used which is the name of Japanese currency. > Does Chinese authorities agree to use the same currency symbol as Japan ? I would guess that most people agree that the same character be used for both 元 and 円. After all, that's the code point Chinese fonts use for 元. If the Chinese authorities do, however, I don't know. Stefan _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet p� www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt!

