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- From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.132339.6447@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:23:39 GMT
- References: <C13IJG.nw@micrognosis.co.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <C13IJG.nw@micrognosis.co.uk> jharuni@micrognosis.co.uk writes:
- >A lot of people seem to use the symbol "#" (NUMBER) in place of the crossed
- >letter ell (STERLING) when refering to the British Pound Sterling.
- >Has this become some sort of de-facto standard ? I find it uncomfortable
- >to read "#10" as "ten pounds".
-
- Some terminals has DEC VT100 (UK) emulation like the Liberty ones we have.
- On my terminal what you typed as a hash appears as a proper pound sign.
- I usually use a UK terminal when reading uk newsgroups and set it back
- to ASCII when I'm not.
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