Asger Blond
ab-mi at post3.tele.dk
Thu May 26 19:13:11 CDT 2005
Funny thing this ¤, which seems to be a reptile. Looking at my keyboard, I wonder if SysRq belongs to the same species? And by the way: $ - I never earned that money... Asger -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock Sendt: 26. maj 2005 10:25 Til: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Emne: Re: [AccessD] OT: What is ¤? 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com