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Re: EuroCurrency

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From: Marc Meier
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00
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In article <na.fde951473b.a702a0richt@argonet.co.uk>, Richard Travers
<URL:mailto:richt@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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?

What's the problem. You can simply write 'ECU'.

I think the C is mainly designed as a symbol for the bank notes and coins and not as a general currency symbol.


Marc
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From: Marc Meier <mmeier@goslar.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: EuroCurrency
Date: 1996/12/13
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