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In article <EF.91Apr18144752@fidel.tools.uucp> ef@tools.uucp (Edgar Fuss) writes:

   >1) What is the currency symbol used for? And who uses it?

   Isn't that Swedish or Norvegian currency (Ore or Oere or whatever
   it's called)?

The symbol looks like a "crown", and the Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
and Icelandic currency is indeed called "crown" (krone, krona, krone,
and kro'na, respectively), but only the Swedes use the currency symbol
in position 2/4 of their ISO 646 national variant.  (O/re is the
smaller unit, 1/100th krone.)

I believe the Swedes use it because they're such rabid America-haters,
and having an evil dollar sign show up on their terminals would just
be Too Much To Bear.  (Only half a smiley on this one, I'm sad to say.)

According to what I heard from NSF, the Norwegian ISO member body,
only Sweden and Germany insisted on the "currency symbol" at the time
of ISO 646, and most other countries didn't care enough to counter
their "need".  This stupidity has been corrected in ISO 8859-1, and a
correction is finding its way back to ISO 646.

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