Re: [Heading OT] Re: Wrong characters in man pages
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > > will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the
> > > ring-with-four-dashes sign (what is that anyway?) in different places.
> >
> > The currency symbol "¤"?
>
> Yes. That's what I mean. Where is it used as a currency symbol? Does it
> just mean: "What follows is money"?
It's known as the "generic currency symbol". From what I can gather, it
seems to be there as a position where font designers can insert a
nationally-appropriate currency symbol.
For an interesting discussion of this symbol, see:
http://www.textmatters.com/pipermail/members/2002-February/015442.html
I have no idea how accurate this is!
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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