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From: Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <happl@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Character is it?
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In article <3b83868d.997362@news.ntlworld.com>, stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) 
wrote:

>> >�������������������
>> >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and
>> >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is.  But what is
>> >� ?
>> This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe.
>On my screen, this is showing up as  
> \_/
> |_|
> / \
>Whereas EURO would be 
>  _
> / `
>(===
> \_,

That's the normal problem between platform (windows, macintosh,
linux, ...) and fonts.

>Stuart (in the UK, which doesn't have the Euro, and didn't think Switzerland had
>either...)

That's true. But we will accept Euro as we do US$, DEM and others.

Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz
Happl