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Article #271Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 20:53
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 20:53
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Also sprach Erik Naggum (enag@ifi.uio.no): >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.) It appears on some Swedish terminals instead of the dollar character, but is never used for marking currency. In common talk it's called the "sun character". Few people knows that it's supposed to be a currency sign. >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.) Stupidities! -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se Le fils du maire est en Normandie avec beaucoup de medecins.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1) Message-ID: <3270@enea.se> Date: 28 Apr 91 20:53:43 GMT References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> <EF.91Apr18144752@fidel.tools.uucp> <ENAG.91Apr22014328@maud.ifi.uio.no> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 20