----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'John Cowan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: RE: The Currency Symbol of China

> Similarly, "yen" is just the Japanese (kun) pronunciation of Chinese
"yuan".
> IMHO, the preferred symbol for both currencies should be U+00A5.

Wrong:

Yen (円) is U+5186, while yuan (元) is U+5143.

"Yen" is an ancient "on" pronunciation for U+5186; today it's pronounced
"en."

Stefan

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