From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 04:45:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20978 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from balernochs.edin.sch.uk (apogee.balernochs.edin.sch.uk [195.188.194.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA20973 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pl2@balernochs.edin.sch.uk) Received: from [195.188.194.38] by balernochs.edin.sch.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA14813; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:45:40 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:45:40 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <9804270756.AA19035@zyqad.co.uk> References: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 98 08:28:20 EDT." <353DE264.2F1CF0FB@opengroup.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Peter Lennon Subject: Re: Euro key ? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:56 am +0100 on 27/4/98, John Richards wrote: > You are all making far too much of all this. Once all the european countries > are in the Euro we can replace the local currency, symbol keycode 243 in UK, Ah, dear me, and of course we can suddenly ignore the history of the last few centuries in the British Isles (correct me, but doesn't the republic of Ireland use the same pound symbol as is used in the UK, and are there not a couple of other countries in the same boat - or at least were in the recent past). Even if the use drops out of currency (pun intended), there must be millions of documents containing this symbol. The printed representation cannot and should not be changed, overnight or over any other interval. Unicode? Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message