X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b9a36912e855ce70 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-31 13:43:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D712A56.9060704@netscape.net> From: Rusty User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020815 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: A few ASCII diddys References: <3D703D7A.3070809@netscape.net> <7212nu039ipvg5ld8btfdd402mph29je2i@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.254.215.253 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1030826579 12.254.215.253 (Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:42:59 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:42:59 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:42:59 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:19244 Martti Roitto wrote: > On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:28:03 +0200, Philip Newton > wrote: > > >>>Hmm, does Euro-Cent actually look like this ?-) >> >>I don't think there's an official euro cent sign. > > > Dunno, there probably isn't one - but at least > http://www.noemedia.gmxhome.de/Euro-Cent.htm gives the idea of a > slashed C (I'm running windows, and the font seems to be verdana), but > it could really be just the charset. > that's just the standard cent symbol used in us, and possibly euro, and other currencies depanding on the font is whether it has a 'slash'(/) or a 'pipe'(|) Go into Wordpad and type alt+0162 select it and change the font between Arial and Georgia (use Courier if you don't have Georgia) see the difference? So in summary, both symbols are correct for the cent. _|_ ___/ / | \ / /\ | | | / \_|_/ \/__/ | /