X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a18a376f99932c3a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: pixel8ed@netcom.com (Diane Wenner) Subject: Re: [TALK] Languages Date: 1996/06/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161175044 sender: pixel8ed@netcom3.netcom.com references: <01bb5508.ccdf34a0$610b76c2@magnet.at.magnet.at> <31BA1938.1D81@wwnet.com> <31BA28D3.5472@execpc.com> <01bb5745.0ba8ea80$0c1fb7ce@crashcat.worldnetoh.com> <4q4hr8$1l1k@news.gate.net> organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Allen Mullen (mullen@gate.net) wrote: : Diane Wenner (pixel8ed@netcom.com) wrote: : : : : Has it occurred to anyone that ascii art looks the same in ANY language? : Do dollar signs appear in all other languages? There wouldn't be much : left of the pictures I do if you took the dollar signs out. [snip] : Allen : http://www.afn.org/~afn39695/ascii.htm Yes, Allen, the dollar sign is part of the standard ascii character set. In places where the the dollar is not a unit of exchange, the local currency is often expressed in dollar equivalents for international communications. Since the US consumes so much, the dollar is used world-wide. Diane ________________________________________________________ l .,,,. | | Diane Wenner Silicon Valley ((~~~?) | | California USA ))(@ @()) | | (() ^ ((( | |________________________________________...._\~/_...._|