Unfortunately, Louis, the euro symbol did not display properly in either Netscape nor in Kmail on my linux system. I see your message was sent in ISO 8859-1 but both programs show me a strange symbol (circle with four radiating lines at 045, 135, 225, and 315 degrees). The message source says that the character that was sent was "=A4". I notice that $ is a shift-4 on my US keyboard and wonder if that's what A4 indicates? Jim On Friday 29 June 2001 1707, Louis JOURDAN wrote: > At 16:09 -0400 01/06/29, Nat Hager III wrote: > >Interesting article on the logistics of Euro-conversion, from next > > week's Business Week International. Makes US metric conversion > > look like a walk in the park. > > Yeah... At least Euro-conversion is thoroughly prepared, whilst the > US metric conversion... > > Seriously, don't give too much credit to this article. Euro is > already a reality for many people, and conversion will go smoothly. > If some journalists want to make it a nightmare, that is their > problem. > > Interesting : do you know how I get the euro symbol � with my new > MacOS (9.1) ? by typing "option-$". In other words the euro is just > an alternative to the dollar ? > > Louis -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
