On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:50:15 -0400, you wrote: Actually Bernie I thought that the international recognized $ was to be used - possibly with E$ or $E before as in Canada C$ etc. Made sense to me but not apparently to the French who think, for some strange reason, they are Europe.
Have you noticed that all travel documents have English + French translation. I always thought this was because the French cannot speak any other language. I realized this when ordering food in a French restaurant in France recently I was rudely asked "can't you speak French" when I was doing my best since we had just driven from Spain and was slightly mixed up between the two and tired as well! That's my rant - BTW load GOOGLE and type in "Great French Victories" and click "I feel lucky" Hugh >On 22 Aug 2005 at 8:41, Hugh Gundersen wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:50:39 -0700, you wrote: >> >> >... US$ to E$ in a wink. > >> BTW what is an E$ ? or a C with = through it for Euros. > >I suspect "Euros" -- which reminds me of the ongoing question: what _are_ >folk in Europe actually doing about a Euro symbol? There isn't one the >ISO-Latin-1 character set and Microsoft's just sticking the graphic into >one of the not-to-be-used parts of the character space isn't exactly >legit [and isn't portable]. Just use the Microsoft encoding (as you just >did) and not worry about it? Is ISO going to do something about it? > >[as a side note, there's still the somewhat annoying arrogance that MS >mail clients advertise: > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >When they're actually using Microsoft's nonstandard CP1252] > > /B\ > >-- >Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA > --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- Sir Hugh of Bognor Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to find it! Hugh Gundersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bognor-bill.co.uk Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK ------------------------------------------------- Vyisder Asmeni Orsisarsis Asderisorsis. B.Cozderiz Vunarz PERORZ ------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
