In IBM environments there is a hoary practice and tradition of defining x'5b' as the 'currency symbol', so named because it is municipal in its associated grapheme, '€' | '¥' | '$' | '£' | <whatever>, as is locally appropriate. The adoption of the euro has reduced their effective number, but there are still many currency symbols in local use, and a distinct code point for each was once deemed too expensive in an SBCS.
Yet another argument for, minimally, DBCS versions of Unicode. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
