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In article <ant131910d07PaoN@pmmeier.goslar.netsurf.de>, Marc Meier
<mmeier@goslar.netsurf.de> wrote:
> 
> In article <na.fde951473b.a702a0richt@argonet.co.uk>, Richard Travers
> <URL:mailto:richt@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> > 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.

ECU takes up far too much space :-)

That may sound silly (esp with the :-) after it) but what about
in spreadsheets, where you are using currency and set the default
leading character(s) of a cell to contain the currency symbol?
They /can/ be set up to display 'ECU' but on many spreadsheets
this genuinely would take up too much space.

<nostalgia>
With the old text based systems of yesteryear, we could simply
make printers do C<backspace>= and use a nondescript char on
screen. Sigh....
</nostalgia>

Now someone will tell me there /is/ a way to do this using the
current system :-)

VinceH

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