I have a better idea to keep it simple -- Why don't we just adopt the U.S. dollar as our official currency? [Linked Image]

The American-version keyboard I have on this system has no £-sign, of course, so I have to use alt-156 to enter one. Foreign currency symbols have long been a problem on computer systems, as they're not part of the standard ASCII character set (why would they be?). Printers need the correct character set as well: I still sometimes receive letters from govt. departments in which the £-sign prints as some accented European character instead.