Grace wrote:
> I know this is very very very thick of me, but why do you write UKP rather
> than £ when you quote prices?
>
> Grace
It is a perfectly sensible question, not thick at all.
The '£' symbol is a 'national currency symbol', and does not always
appear as a 'pound sign' when displayed; worse than that, on some
systems it can have the effect of inserting a spurious digit (usually
but not always a 'three') in place of the 'pound sign'. So an
amount that is typed in as
'pounds symbol' 400 (ie four hundred pounds sterling)
may appear to some people as
3400
which they might well interpret as three thousand four hundred
pounds.
To get round this it is sensible to us either UKP or GBP to mean UK
(or GB) pounds. That also eases the problems with the Irish 'punt',
which you can put as SIP (or whatever!!).
My daughter lives in Franace, but works in Switzerland. She and I
use three currencies, the UKP, the SF, and the FF.
Mike Wells
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