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Old February 14th 08, 02:14 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Kirk Northrop Kirk Northrop is offline
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Today at 00:35, Mizter T wrote:
I'm well aware that others use the GBP notation, but I do find it
somewhat cumbersome, especially on a uk.* newsgroup where I would
expect many readers usenet clients to be able to handle the correct
regional characters. So, how many people get gibberish when I say the
price of a One Day Bus Pass currently stands at £3.50?


You'd think that most reasonably modern newsreaders would be able to use
UTF-8, wouldn't you...

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Kirk