There are lots of ways to indicate a currency, but I wouldn't think of EUR or the other three character codes listed in this note as signs. (Although the ISO 4217 3-letter codes replace where signs were previously used, in most cases.)
tex Philippe Verdy wrote: > > On Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 15:03 -0400 2003-07-07, Tex Texin wrote: > > > > > When is a character properly called a currency sign? > > > > Hunh? When you use it to represent currency. DM was two characters > > used as a character sign in Germany. > > As well as now the "EUR" international currency code, usable also > as a symbol when the Euro sign is not available. > > Same thing for "JPY" (Japanese Yen), "USD" (US Dollar), "GBP" (British > Sterling Pound), "BRR" (Brasilian Real), "THB" (Thai Bath), or "XEU" > (the past European Currency Unit replaced by the Euro in a different > area of countries excluding GB and DK, but including four non EU > member countries: AD, MC, SM, VA, which were previously not in > the ECU "basket")... > > The old symbol for the Italian Lira or the Turkish Pound is a handscripted > lowercase L, which is not strictly a currency sign. > > Unlike the old Peseta symbol, or the French Franc symbol (this one was > rarely used at least with the "representative" glyph: on old French > typesetters a narrow and kerned "Fr" abbreviation was printed on the key > that is now used for the Superscript 2 Digit (�) character on modern > computer keyboards). > > -- Philippe. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
