> According to
>
> http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/euro.html
>
> IBM has changed code pages 850 and 857 to include the euro sign.
>
> Therefore I suggest to update in the mapping files
>
> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP850.TXT
> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP857.TXT
>
> the lines
>
> 0xd5 0x0131 #LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
> 0xd5 #UNDEFINED
>
> which should both be replaced by
>
> 0xd5 0x20AC #EURO SIGN
>
> and the equivalent change should be made in CP857.TXT.
>
Not necessarily. I believe what it means to say (but doesn't) about CP850
is that a new code page, CP858, was created by copying CP850 and replacing
dotless i with the Euro symbol. I don't think IBM has ever changed, or will
ever change, the definition of a code page.
Similarly for CP857, but I don't know the CP number of its Euro twin.
CP923 is identical to ISO 8859-15. CP924 has the same repertoire as CP923
but with EBCDIC encoding. Other EBCDIC code page replacements include:
Current New Code Countries
37 1140 9F USA, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Australia, NZ
273 1141 9F Austria, Germany
277 1142 5A Denmark, Norway
278 1143 5A Finland, Sweden
280 1144 9F Italy
284 1145 9F Spain, Latin America (Spanish)
285 1146 9F UK
297 1147 9F France
500 1148 9F Belgium, Canada, Switzerland
871 1149 9F Iceland
("Code" is the hex code point of the Euro symbol).
This according to documentation shipped by IBM with OS/2 Fix Paks. I'm
sure the info can also be found somewhere in the maze of IBM web pages.
- Frank
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