[rescue] Alphaserver

Carl-Johan Schenstrom cjs at bluebox.pp.se
Wed Jul 9 18:58:50 CDT 2003


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Stephen D. B. Wolthusen wrote:

> Not true, the UK has no monopoly on the pound as the currency unit (guineas
> might've worked, though). Just off the top of my head, both Egypt and Turkey
> also have pounds. That's why using international currency symbols such as USD
> or UKP is a good habit - and not just because the UKP typographical symbol is
> frequently mangled in character set translation.

Except it's GBP, not UKP. =)

<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217>

//cjs



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