In article <[email protected]> [email protected] "Mick Merrigan" writes: > Greeting from the Genealogical Society of Ireland > http://welcome.to/GenealogyIreland > > Folks, > > It has come to our notice that the symbol for the Euro currency is > unrecognised by the newsgroups - maybe the moderators can look into the > problem. For example Ir?9.00 (the price of each of our two new publications) > in Euros is 11.45, however, the symbol is replaced with a question to make > i.e ?11.45. > All currency symbols are 8-bit ASCII; UseNet is a 7-bit medium, thus it is necessary to use not the currency symbols but the ISO currency codes. This is not a moderated newsgroup, therefore "the moderators" do not exist. <snip> -- _______ +---------------------------------------------------+ |\\ //| | Charles Ellson:E-mail charlesATellson.demon.co.uk | | \\ // | +---------------------------------------------------+ | > < | | // \\ | Alba gu brath |//___\\|