Re: Mac/PC interoperability

From: RenE J.V. Bertin (rbertin@ccr.jussieu.fr)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 15:09:48 EDT


On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

8-) In Mac OS 8.5, the definition of 0xDB in the MacRoman character set changed from U+00A4 (currency sign) to U+20AC (Euro). Mac OS 8.5 and later treat 0xDB as the Euro.
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8-) If you are omitting characters that don't translate, then perhaps you should omit this one...
8-)
8-) I hope this helps.

        Thanks, yes it does. In fact, it confirms what I already figured out due to some other
person's feedback. Why-oh-why did we ever invent a Euro... :)

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