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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Aug 2001.
Re: What Character is it?

Re: What Character is it?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:53 +0200, Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com>
enlightened us with:

> In article <TDIg7.142435$Jg....@typhoon.kc.rr.com>,
>  "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> 
> >�������������������
> >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and
> >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is.  But what is
> >� ?
> 
> This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe.
> 
> Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz
> Happl

On my screen, this is showing up as  

 \_/
 |_|
 / \

Whereas EURO would be 

  _
 / `
(===
 \_,

Although more rounded.

[Font is lucidia console]

Stuart (in the UK, which doesn't have the Euro, and didn't think Switzerland had
either...)

-- 
 o
 |\ _[]
 L_ ===    Stuart Moore
 []\, stm

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