Re: fortran character set

In article <1i3ij5v.16w73fasfmtz9N%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Maine <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Terence <tbwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 28, 9:06 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The other question was what currency symbols are included now in
Fortran's character set?
There are no currency symbols in Fortran as such.

While the dollar might be a bit weak these days, last time I checked it
was still a currency. :-)

The problem is all the non-dollar currency symbols. Many Americans call
the hash mark or octothorp a pound sign, but it has nothing to do with
currency. If one is is referring to currency, a real pound sign is a
script upper case L with a horizontal line across its middle, in
countries that use or formerly used the pound, e.g. UK, Ireland,
Australia, NZ. Italians used the same symbol for their pre-euro
currency of lire, thereby temporarily worrying tourists from UK etc,
because one lira was worth about 0.00035 pounds :-)

The f2003 character set includes the hash mark but not the real pound
sign as defined above, and calls it the number sign. The dollar sign is
also in f2003, and is called the currency symbol there. Presumably that
was done by people who thought everyone's currency was dollars. There
are of course many countries that call their currency dollars, but
1 USD /= 1 AUD /= 1 NZD ...

People who use the pound, euro, yen, rupee, won etc. have no single
Fortran character to use as their currency symbol. Currency traders
nowadays use GBP, EUR, JPY, INR, PKR, LKR, KRW, USD, NZD, AUD etc.

-- John Harper, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
e-mail john.harper@xxxxxxxxx phone (+64)(4)463 5341 fax (+64)(4)463 5045
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