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In message <na.fde951473b.a702a0richt@argonet.co.uk> Richard Travers 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?
> 

But WHY do we need a SYMBOL for the new currency? You don't need it for
Deutschmarks (DM), for example. Neither for Pounds (just say UKP!)
And it works fine. Why don't say "ECU" then?

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Christian Kohlsch�tter

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