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Djk,

Ahh, now we are three (you, me, Hutch) who agree on this


This is indeed the official way throughout Europe. I think the EU has said that it doesn't care what people use, but suggest this official form.


The Euro symbol should be treated just like £ and $. However, if you are writing 'Euro' it should be after.

Pauluk,

Swedes use the latter form. 5.30 (or 17.30 ) is "halv sex", as you are halfway to six. It gets a bit more complex with 5.25, "fem i halv sex", literally meaning "five in half six"

I had no idea that there was a UK keyboard. Why on earth did someone invent such a thing?

Swedish keyboards have the less commonly used keys like colon, question mark and backslash in other positions than the US keyboard. A PITA when you ran DOS and DOS-based software which often forced the use of the US keyboard. Murphys law dictated that you always pushed the wrong key.

I once wrote an e-mail in a Canadian internet-café, using the alt key + number to get the Swedish characters. It went just fine until I mistyped the number for the last character and the e-mail was deleted.

Trumpy,
To use your Euro sign which is situated next to the 5 key, you have to press the right alt key and the 5 key simultaneosly. If it doesn't work, then you have to change your input language to "English (United States) - United States - International".

[This message has been edited by Belgian (edited 06-18-2003).]

Or set the keyboard to Swedish and push the letter E and Alt Gr simultaneously.

or if you're using a Mac press Option(Alt) + 2 (marked with a Euro symbol)

Looks like in Winders it's Alt+0128

€ € €

€ doesn't work, but bold and italics seem to.




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 06-18-2003).]

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

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.