At 13:27 30/11/96 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
> ISO8879 names for Windows CP 1252 80-9F (128-160) entities:
>
> 83 (131) -- ? -- florin
>
>What's a florin? I know it's the old UK name for what was two
>shillings, but Bill obviously means something else here.
Florin is the Dutch Guilder, a.k.a. HFl and Gulden. It is derived from the
name of the city Florence, a.k.a. Firence, where banking was invented. Too
bad the Europeans are so confused.
--Jonathan Rosenne JR Consulting P O Box 33641, Tel Aviv, Israel Phone: +972 50 246 522 Fax: +972 9 956 7353 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jonathan_Rosenne/
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