Re: fortran character set

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
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My understanding is that in countries using the Pound, the script
L character goes in the # character position.

For people using ISO 646, the character position occupied by # in
US ASCII is one of the positions that changes meaning in the national
variants. Yes, in some of them the pound currency symbol (£) is
placed there. I don't have any statistics, but how many people still
use national variants of 646 instead of ISO 8859-* or ISO 10646?
In both of those, the pound currency symbol is elsewhere (U+00A3
for UNICODE).

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