From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 20:21:14 EDT
There are lots of ways to indicate a currency, but I wouldn't think of EUR or
the other three character codes listed in this note as signs. (Although the
ISO 4217 3-letter codes replace where signs were previously used, in most
cases.)
tex
Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
> On Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
>
> > At 15:03 -0400 2003-07-07, Tex Texin wrote:
> >
> > > When is a character properly called a currency sign?
> >
> > Hunh? When you use it to represent currency. DM was two characters
> > used as a character sign in Germany.
>
> As well as now the "EUR" international currency code, usable also
> as a symbol when the Euro sign is not available.
>
> Same thing for "JPY" (Japanese Yen), "USD" (US Dollar), "GBP" (British
> Sterling Pound), "BRR" (Brasilian Real), "THB" (Thai Bath), or "XEU"
> (the past European Currency Unit replaced by the Euro in a different
> area of countries excluding GB and DK, but including four non EU
> member countries: AD, MC, SM, VA, which were previously not in
> the ECU "basket")...
>
> The old symbol for the Italian Lira or the Turkish Pound is a handscripted
> lowercase L, which is not strictly a currency sign.
>
> Unlike the old Peseta symbol, or the French Franc symbol (this one was
> rarely used at least with the "representative" glyph: on old French
> typesetters a narrow and kerned "Fr" abbreviation was printed on the key
> that is now used for the Superscript 2 Digit (²) character on modern
> computer keyboards).
>
> -- Philippe.
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