Re: [NTLK] [OT] Euro (was:Direction)

From: Alexander Schreiber (als_at_thangorodrim.de)
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 08:36:51 PDT


On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:25:01PM +0200, Michael J. Hußmann wrote:
> Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_telebyte.nl) wrote:
>
> > In Holland a lot if people are jokingly referring to them as Euri now,
> > a non- existing plural.
>
> In Germany, they are often referred to as "Euronen", especially by
> younger folk -- or "Teuronen", from "teuer" (expensive) and "Euro".

And sometimes abbreviated not as "EUR" (the official plaintext symbol),
but as "FRZ", from "Fragezeichen" (question mark) since the Euro Symbol
is usually displayed as a question mark in case of character set
problems (text contains the EUR symbol but is marked as latin1 - which
character set doesn't contain this symbol, it should be latin15). The
usual culprits for this kind of character set problems were/are Windows
users with broken/ill configured mail/news clients.

Regards,
      Alex.

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