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- From: benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
- Message-ID: <30648@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:29:51 GMT
- References: <C13IJG.nw@micrognosis.co.uk> <SM.93Jan21152109@suns2.cel.co.uk>
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- In article <SM.93Jan21152109@suns2.cel.co.uk> sm@cel.co.uk (salim mehta) writes:
- >
- >The ISO standard code for UK currency is GBP (eg. used on airline tickets).
- >
- >However I believe that the currency symbol we use is now out of date. The
- >flouncy L was OK when we had Lsd; now our pennies are abbr. p. The pound
- >should be abbr. P. This gives:
- >
- > 100p = 1P
- >
- >This conveniently matches the ISO descriptor.
-
- No, I don't think it should be. The main reason being it would cause far
- too much confusion between p and P. Sometimes it is not possible to use
- lower-case letters. OK, so you could differentiate a bit by making P50
- be 50 pounds and 50P be 50 pence but I don't think this is anywhere near
- clear enough. I can't think of any other currencies that use the same
- symbol (or different versions of it) to represent the two amaounts in
- their currency. Can you?
-
-
- Ben.
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