Re: Euro symbol

Peter Svensson (petersv@df.lth.se)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:58:48 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Daniel Egger wrote:

> >The UK pound has a symbol. Its not all that unique. Oh and it appears to be
> >a case of 'The euro has to have a symbol because the dollar does'. The Yen
> >has a symbol too.
>
> Did you notice something? I guess there are about 100 different currencies
> and only 4 (with the euro 5) have their own symbol in the charsets...

Many probably don't have a symbol at all. The Swedish currency "krona" has
no symbol e.g., it is just written "100 SEK" or "100 kr". Anyone have a
count on the number of currencies that have their own symbol?

Peter

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