RE: [office-formula] Universal currency symbol?

I don't have a strong opinion, just noting that there is a standard symbol 
for this.

-Rob

"Dennis E. Hamilton" <> wrote on 03/19/2010 
01:15:05 PM:

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> "Dennis E. Hamilton" <>
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> "'Eike Rathke'" <>, <>
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> 03/19/2010 01:18 PM
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> RE: [office-formula] Universal currency symbol?
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> +1 Agreed.  Showing a generic currency symbol won't clarify "currency
> units".
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eike Rathke [mailto:] 
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 05:15
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> Subject: Re: [office-formula] Universal currency symbol?
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> Hi Patrick,
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> On Monday, 2010-03-15 11:29:02 -0400, Patrick Durusau wrote:
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> > I am catching up on entering changes into JIRA and noticed that on 
> > Office-1103, Rob says:
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> >> (Note that we should use the universal currency symbol '¤' (U+00A4) 
> >> instead of writing "currency units" 
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> > Not critical to this edit but it does occur a number of times in the 
text.
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> > Wanted to ask before I do a global find/replace. Any comments?
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> There is no currency symbol involved, no reason to introduce U+00A4.
> 
>   Eike
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> -- 
> Automatic string conversions considered dangerous. They are the GOTO
> statements
> of spreadsheets.  --Robert Weir on the OpenDocument formula 
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