Re: [AccessD] OT: What is ¤?

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Thu May 26 03:25:00 CDT 2005


Hi Stuart and all who responded.

That explains in full what it is, but still not how or if it is used. I
cannot recall a single case where I have seen it applied.
It looks like it's a carry-over from the early mainframe days - with no
practical use today.

/gustav

>>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 05/26 12:06 am >>>
On 25 May 2005 at 15:22, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> This list knows everything. 
> Someone asked a local IT paper what the "sun" character ¤ is used
for,
> not even its name. No one knows.
> 
It's unicode name is "Currency Sign".   It's HTML Name "¤"

For more than you ever wnated to know about it, see
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a4/index.htm 

-- 
Stuart




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