Kaoru Maeda writes: > Darren Duncan wrote: > > the next best is £ > Isn't that 0x23 in UK? I imagine that someday all the comment lines > cause syntax errors in UK...
U+00A3 "POUND SIGN" is at 0x23 in ISO 646-GB (aka BS 4730), true. Fortunately, that character set is almost never used. I think the last time I encountered it was on a dot-matrix printer manufactured in the 1980s. Hmmm. Encode.pm doesn't seem to have support available for any of the ISO 646 character sets. I feel a patch coming on. -- Aaron Crane
