Previously Tom Lees wrote: > Either it will fail, or global currency unification will eventually happen, Huh? There have been plans for European cooperation and even a joint currency for a long long time now, and there have never been serious talk about a global effort in the same direction. So this seems like a very premature remark at least. > Besides, why does the EURO matter? The only currency symbol that currently > works on my keyboard (under Linux) is the dollar, and I imagine that this > is the case for many others. Dutch people happily use the `f' as a currency symbol, which happens to work fine with really old, old and new keyboards :) Still, a lot of Europen currencies will be replaces by the Euro in the next couple of years (final switch will be somewhere in 2002), so it is really an issue. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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