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Article #6943Re: Symbol for money.
From: teknow
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:00
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"Alt" <alt@card.kyiv.net> wrote in message news:3A1C66FF.D69E43B0@card.kyiv.net... snip > No, I do not want to change languages.By the way I code in pure C, where "$" > uses only in comments and like literal. :) If you code in C then you know that you can declare meta equivilencies for any character, of course your programs will look odd to anyone else, but if the character offends you, then you need only use it once. snip > > If you want to really get confused, then tell us the name of this symbol, > > also encountered in computer languages: # > > > > Slang: "grid", "number". > Musical: it is a sign of positive alteration > (and it is single sign of alteration in modern guitar tabulatures :). In North America it is known as the "pound" sign also, but to a British person, a "pound sign" is a written L with a line across it. My point being that over-typing a symbol with meaning always has a cultural context. If you want to find things to worry about, this seems quite trivial. > > ...By the way insteal USA some European countries has a jails without grids > and forced guard !!! Off topic, so do many other countries and the US. What do you think the US is like anyway, it is like any other country. After all Canada is rated by the UN as the best one to live in for 7 or the last 8 years, and we have no problems with using dollar signs for our currency. <grin> > > STOP, I DO NOT CARE about "#" > Propose, to replace "the dollar" sign by "the money" sign, > directly in the codeset. > Just change the graphics of the symbol with certain number. > > It is simple. > An there is a reasone to do it. > Only for obsessive compulsive personalities! <joke, not insult, please> > > ? ? -- > > ? ? Philipp Lehman ?lehman@gmx.net?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,8dc068f250a8464 X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: fbb79,8dc068f250a8464 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb79,public X-Google-Thread: fb788,8dc068f250a8464 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb788,public X-Google-Thread: 10ea12,8dc068f250a8464 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ea12,public From: "teknow" <tecknow@powersurfr.com> Subject: Re: Symbol for money. Date: 2000/11/26 Message-ID: <8vqg7d$2bs$1@dagger.ab.videon.ca> X-Deja-AN: 697817963 References: <3A171D19.4C770E2E@card.kyiv.net> <ltqdv8.9j2.ln@520054029113-0001.dialin.t-online.de> <3A1B1B67.4A8D1DA@card.kyiv.net> <8vfleb$e78$1@dagger.ab.videon.ca> <3A1C66FF.D69E43B0@card.kyiv.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@powersurfr.com X-Trace: dagger.ab.videon.ca 975225901 2428 24.108.169.71 (26 Nov 2000 08:05:01 GMT) Organization: TecKnowhow Inc. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "teknow" <tecknow@powersurfr.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Nov 2000 08:05:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,eunet.european,soc.culture.european,comp.fonts