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>1) What is the currency symbol used for? And who uses it?
Your guess is as good as mine....

>2) What are the feminine and masculine ordinal indicators used for?
>   (The symbols in position 0xaa and 0xba that look like a small
>   underlined a and o.) I believe they are used in Spanish, is that
>   true and for what purpose?
They are used to change a cardinal number into an ordinal
(e.g. 1o -> primo = "first").

>3) What is the pilcrow sign used for? And who uses it?
I have seen it used as a paragraph indicator.

>4) Do the Germans consider the double-s (position 0xdf) a lower-case
>   letter, or is it both upper and lower case?
I'm only three-eighths German, but my guess is that it is both.
It does not appear at the beginning of a word, so the only time it is
found in upper case is when a whole word is capitalized.  (No "ligature
wars," please... :-) )

>5) Why does the standard contain the diacritical marks in separate symbol
>   positions, when they are also found as parts of letters? ...
Perhaps for use in modern printer terminals with non-destructive backspaces?
:-)

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan
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