Re: Euro currency sign

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 15 1997 - 16:17:20 EDT


Ar 07:13 -0700 1997-10-15, scríobh John Wilcock:
>On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 03:41:31 -0700 (PDT), Carrasco Benitez Manuel
>wrote:
>> IT ASPECTS OF THE EURO CURRENCY SIGN
>...
>>ASCII AND LATIN1
>>A position should be found for the euro currency sign in ASCII and
>>Latin1 (ISO 8859-1), as there will be many systems using these
>>encoding after the euro is introduced.
>...
>> Unicode number Glyph Name
>> 007C | VERTICAL LINE
>...
>
>What is the status of this document?
>Surely the Latin-0 proposal covers this already?

That document has no "status"; it is a personal contribution and states so
itself.

We will look at it at the Workshop tomorrow, and some attention to its
recommendations will be given by the body in Europe which has been charged
with responsibility for assisting the Commission in implementing the Euro
sign, namely CEN/TC304.

Best regards,

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