Re: fortran character set

Terence wrote:
Isn't that the Norwegian Kroner symbol?

No, that's just written Kr or kr (no special symbol), former always
before the amount, and the latter either before or after. Same with
Danish and Swedish kroner too, methinks.

The ¤ symbol only has appeared on the keyboard in recent years (10-15
years ago maybe, but I don't remember exactly). Before that, it was the
$ symbol at that position (which has now moved to AltGr-4 instead). Also
IIRC, on even older typewriters the £ (pound sterling) was located on
Shift-3, but has now been replaced by the # symbol (£ moved to AltGr-3)
which I think was a much more useful change for us.

These are all symbols that are printed on the keys (along with a few
other handy symbols like € (euro, AltGr-E) and µ (Greek mu, AltGr-M).
Some operating systems of course expand this scheme even further with a
bunch of useful symbols available through the AltGr shift key.

Anyway, this has all to do with keyboard layouts, and NOT the character
set used. Therefore I don't think it should be directly related to
Fortran... :-)

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