On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 04:04, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > However, I tend to spend most of the year living in the Netherlands, > which is one of the countries adopting the Euro, and there's no Euro > symbol in the fonts used by en_AU. I don't speak Dutch, so there's not much > point setting LANG to nl, nl_NL or whatever. And there's no [EMAIL > PROTECTED] In > fact, for English speakers, there's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure, the UK hasn't > adopted the Euro, but is it inconceivable that English speakers of non-Euro > countries might need to use the Euro symbol?
Good point. English is one of the required languages for many EU organizations. Last time I looked at jobs advertised by the EPO applicants had to know English, German, and French. So you would expect that a good portion of people working there would have English as their first language and want to mainly use it for their computing work. I'll continue using 'E' for Euro, '#' for pounds, 'Y' for Yen, and 'c' for cents. It was only yesterday that I discovered that the funny "C with vertical line through it" character was supposed to represent cents... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
