on 4/8/02 1:12 PM, Marco Mailand at Newton2k1_at_mac.com wrote:
> To be honest: Who needs currency symbols at all? The standard currency
> abbreviations are much better because they get never mangled by e-mail
> systems or displayed differently and they identify each currency w/o
> ambiguities. What else is needed, why e.g. a $ sign if there's about a half
> dozen of different dollar currencies?
Well, for instance, in a spreadsheet, you can't write 500.00usd. You need
the $ symbol in order for the spreadsheet to work. :-)
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