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From: Richard Travers
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00

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It may have escaped your notice that someone has designed a "Symbol"
for the ECU (whatever it is to be called).  The symbol is best
described as the letter C with two horizontal cross-bars.

Given that this symbol does not appear in any of the standard font sets,
nor in any printer font sets, I wonder if anyone has considered the
huge costs for industry, education and home computer users of up-grading
their fonts and their printers to accomodate the new symbol (it would,
after all, be highly embarrassing to be unable to print the currency
symbol for your own currency)?

In the event that the UK eventually joins the common currency, is it
proposed that such costs should be funded by the government?

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Date: 1996/12/13
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