>>I'm in my first foray into international stuff and I have this problem with the currency symbol.
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>>I set regional options (OS) to English UK and saw it show the £ as the currency symbol.
>>Then I re-booted.
>>Then I SET CURRENCY TO '£' in my program.
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>Set Currency is scoped to the datasession. Could that be the cause?

No, that I had remembered.

It seems that it is only the functions (@$) that use the currency symbol set, and not the mask characters (as in $$,$$$,$99.99). I was using only the latter and now use only the former.

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