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Old February 15th 08, 12:35 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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Default Pound sterling symbol and usenet posts

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Chris Tolley wrote:

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?


Some. Then some more get gibberish when someone who got gibberish
replies to your post, quoting it, and so on.

There will also be some people who for bizarre reasons not worth going
into think that the symbol pronounced "pound" is a noughts-and-crosses
grid.


Astounding! As any fule know, this is called the octothorpe.

tom

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