On 22 Aug 2005 at 13:25, Hugh Gundersen wrote: > Actually Bernie I thought that the international recognized $ was to be > used - possibly with E$ or $E before as in Canada C$ etc. Made sense to me > but not apparently to the French who think, for some strange reason, they > are Europe.
That makes sense tome, too, but mostly as a stopgap, I think. And what's the comment about the French? They're certainly not the only ones using the 'official' Euro symbol: I've run across the MS-encoding on British, German and Dutch web pages. > Have you noticed that all travel documents have English + French > translation. I always thought this was because the French cannot speak any > other language. I think it is a left over from when French was the "Lingua Franca" [where English really now is]. There was a while, mostly in Eastern Europe where German was a bit of an LF, but for the most part the LF _was_ French and is now English, so having those two isn't so crazy, IMO. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
