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- From: snail@lsl.co.uk
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.114132.2955@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:41:32 GMT
- References: <C13IJG.nw@micrognosis.co.uk> <727485345snz@home.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <727485345snz@home.demon.co.uk>, cms@home.demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) writes:
- > In article <C13IJG.nw@micrognosis.co.uk> jharuni@micrognosis.co.uk writes:
- >
- >>If "#" is not an acceptable alternative to the real symbol, what would
- >>be an acceptable way of writing "10 pounds" in mail ? Just a capital ell,
- >>like "L10" ? Spell it out in full, like "10 pounds" ?
- >
- > It is practically a standard to use '#' as a pound sign. Why not, indeed,
- > as it is one of the few ascii characters that has no (other) meaning in
- > English?
-
- Wrong. # means sharp in english musical notation.
-
- > And the actual pound sign ('' for any ibmpc users out there)
- > has no equivalence in ascii.
- > Regards,
- > Cliff.
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