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Re: Currency symbols

#849
From: Ben Cranston
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1987 21:39
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In article <8574@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> If you look at an italic lowercase F, you will see the character you
> allude to with a small horizontal stroke across it...  
> (This is one place, incidentally, where an italic font is *not* just a
> slanted roman font.)

Another is the lower case a:

 ***        ****
*   *      *   *
    *      *   *
 ****      *   *
*   *      *   *
*   *      *   *
 *** *      *** *

(well, pretend the second one is slanted...)

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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Currency symbols
Message-ID: <1934@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 17:39:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.1934
Posted: Tue Sep 15 17:39:03 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Sep-87 06:27:40 EDT
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Reply-To: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: Another is the lower case a