Aarrrgh! So sorry, thanks for catching it. I cut and paste it from
somewhere and didn't check it.
Yes it is very important to get this right, there is already too much
confusion about the euro character and I apologize for contributing to
that morass.
On Mar 27, 9:50am, Lazaros.TOSSOUNIDIS@di.cec.be wrote:
> Subject: Euro sign Unicode code point = Hex 20AC
> Please note that there is an error for the code point of euro in
Unicode in your message:
>
> this is **** ONCE AGAIN 2 0 A C ***** and NOT -20A0-.
> Euro sign Unicode code point == Hex 20AC
>
>
> It seems to me very important at this stage to inform the implementors
and general public
> about the correct position of the character.
>
> Lazaros TOSSOUNIDIS
> European Commission
> IT Dpt.
>
> > Microsoft was the first to get back to me on my request for all
> > vendors to provide information on their changes and additions to
> > codepages over the past 2 or so years. I thought I should reward
their
> > responsiveness by sharing the info. (With their permission.) To wit:
> >
> > No other characters have been added to the Windows code pages other
than
> > the Euro and in 1252, 2 Finnish characters.
> >
> > The Euro (U+20A0) has been added to only the following ten Windows
> > codepages (They are all single-byte):
> > (Yes all at 0x80, except 1251 which is 0x88. It's not a typo.)
> >
> > 0x80 1250 Central Europe
> > 0x88 1251 Cyrillic
> > 0x80 1252 Western
> > 0x80 1253 Greek
> > 0x80 1254 Turkish
> > 0x80 1255 Hebrew
> > 0x80 1256 Arabic
> > 0x80 1257 Baltic
> > 0x80 1258 Vietnamese
> > 0x80 874 Thai
> >
> > 0x8E, 0x8F are defined in Code Page 1252 for the Finnish z-haceks
> > U+017D, U+017E
> >
> > Many thanks to Microsoft for helping us all keep up to date.
Microsoft is
> > working on updating the mapping tables at the Unicode FTP site with
this
> > information.
> >
> > Tex
> >
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