Re: Symbol for money.

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From: Dave Fawthrop
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:00

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"teknow" <tecknow@powersurfr.com> wrote in message
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>
> Not just US. Canada, Australia, and several other countries use $ as the
> symbol for their base currency.

As someone who sells 80-90% outside the UK. this is a serious problem.
Particularly as almost all initial discussions are done by email.
Get it wrong and we could loose serious money.
I always assume that electronic transmission will make a mess any Monetary
symbol.


The only totally unambiguous ways to specify a currency are:
To use the banks two or three letter codes GBP, USD, FF, DM, etc.
To write it out in full "United States Dollars", Euro etc.


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From: "Dave Fawthrop" <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Symbol for money.
Date: 2000/11/26
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