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China Blue W�zards Cult wrote:

> You seem to be upset when computer software use $.
>
> Don't think of it as currency,

> but as a funny character that wasn't being

> used for anything else,

No,Always, I put it when write price an dollars.

> so programmers grabbed it. I also grab characters
> like ` or # or @ for special uses because they're there and not otherwise
> used in the contexts.
>

It is different.May be, "#" it must be a russian attribute,
they love to live like in a jail. :))
And "@" is a national attribute of ... what nation has big ears... :)))

> It is the US currency symbol because Europe blew out its brains as
> electronic computers were being invented and coming into mass production.
> Much about computers is USAcentric because the USA was (and still is?) the
> leading producer and consumer of computers.

Indeed ?1. Europe first started electronic commerce.
2. Europe invented WWW.
3. Europe create X25.
4. In certain countries of Europe Internet was more popular as in USA.
But Europe was so inertial. :(

Japan do not love American or European software,
and font is not single reason.
Also, Japan produce independent computers,
and cover it's market,
but Europe and America closed their markets for Japanese.

American just make the world to get their standards.
Sometimes it is good sometimes it is bad.


> It's not right, it's not
> wrong, it just made most of costumers happy in the days of 64  (and then
> 95) fixed character sets.
>

Not quite...It is an advertisement of american money.

--Alt.