On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > Or do you think that > the common Brit thinks whether or not he can use his standard currency > symbol when writing an email to Olin? No... he just uses it, and expects > Olin to just be able to read it, like (almost) everybody else on this > world. The Pound Sterling symbol is not any different than the capital > omega: it's part of several "extended ASCII" and Unicode charsets, but not > part of ASCII. > I'd probably not use it when e-mailing to an international audience, knowing it is kind of non standard. Even our company intranet site tends to use GBP instead. Chris -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist