Re: German penny symbol

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 06:09:41 EDT


Ar 15:32 -0700 1999-07-22, scríobh Markus Kuhn:
>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?
>
>Markus
>(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.)

At the very least it should be named PFENNIG SIGN (cf YEN SIGN, EURO SIGN etc.)

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