Re: German penny symbol

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 22:42:27 EDT


Markus Kuhn scripsit:
>
> John Cowan wrote on 1999-07-22 19:05 UTC:
> > What happened to U+20B0 GERMAN PENNY SYMBOL
>
> Where does this symbol come from and what does it look like?
> Is the proposal and rationale for including it somewhere online?

Ya got me. As I said, it's mentioned on the pipeline page at
www.unicode.org.

> (a poor German who has neither ever seen a German penny symbol anywhere,
> nor is aware of any currency unit "penny" ever used anywhere in the land
> of Schiller, Goethe, and Walkes.)

Well, you have a word for it (Pfennig), so you must have had the unit
at some time, I suppose.

There are 15,000 Alta Vista hits for it.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin



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