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Euro symbol: (was Re: [Heading OT] Re: Wrong characters in man pages)



on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, Matijs van Zuijlen (Matijs.van.Zuijlen@xs4all.nl) 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 a Euro symbol rendered in a fontset that doesn't support the Euro
symbol, which looks something like:

    __
   /
  |===
   \__

...or, as some have observed, the 'Quake' icon, rotated 90°.

Peace.

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