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Jeffrey Nonken

Re: English is wonderful

"...currency symbols other than $..."

Including the cent symbol, which is used in the U.S. but was left out of ASCII.

Which by the way is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. So, yeah, only suitable for use in America, and only marginally at that. You're welcome, rest-of-the-world.

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