Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-07 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:57 AM, Stefan Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > "XEU" (the past European Currency Unit replaced by the Euro in a > > different area of countries excluding GB and DK, > > Also excluding SE. Sorry, I should have named it. But has ever Sw

Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-08 Thread Alexandros Diamantidis
* Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-08 02:34]: > With the Euro, a lot of currency units lost their symbol: > - the Greek Drachme symbol (or is it really only a currency symbol or > an alternate form of the Delta?) I don't think the glyph shown in the Unicode charts (a cursive "Δρ") was v

Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-08 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:58 AM, Alexandros Diamantidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-08 02:34]: > > With the Euro, a lot of currency units lost their symbol: > > - the Greek Drachme symbol (or is it really only a currency symbol > > or an alternate

Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-08 Thread Pim Blokland
Thomas Chan schreef: > Would "Euro" also be a (four-character) currency sign? No, that's not a sign, just a name, like "Dollar" or "Pfennig" or "Rijksdaalder". The original question was about characters, though. I saw nobody answered the question with "when it has a general category of Sc". Am I

Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-12 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.07.08, 01:34, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the Euro, a lot of currency units lost their symbol: > > - the Spanish Peseta symbol > - the Pound symbol in Ireland <...> > - the Greek Drachme symbol <...> > - the Italian Lira symbol <...> > - the "French Franc" symbol <...>

Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-15 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.07.13, 00:19, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote me off list, but the I guess this is marginally interesting for all: > At 21:54 +0100 2003-07-12, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > >> This symbol is called in Portuguese "_cifrão_", and most people don't >> really know that it is a

Re: [OT] When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-15 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.07.14, 23:30, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about the symbol "$": > Actually, people do (or did) not saw that symbol as a _escudo_ sign, > but rather as a common symbol for money and related subjects. And I'm keeping an eye on how will this evolve as the euro and it