Re: The cent sign

From: Keld Jørn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 19:08:40 EST


On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:09:27PM +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 12:19 -0800 2002-06-03, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> >At 01:20 PM 3/6/02 +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
> >>I am writing with Eudora version 5.1b16 for Mac OS X, using the Mac
> >>Roman character set because Eudora doesn't support Unicode. When
> >>Eudora sends mail, it sends as ISO/IEC 8859-1 so far as I know.
> >
> >Just don't use characters that aren't in 8859-1, spelling it out as
> >"euro" would have been fine. As a standards-guy, you should know
> >what's in 8859 and what's not.
>
> I am using Mac OS X, and when I type option-2, I have a perfectly
> good euro sign. If that comes out as a currency sign on some other
> systems, it isn't *my* fault. I'm not willing to spell out "euro"
> while being able to type $ and ¥ and ¢! I could go back to EUR and
> USD and JPY....

Could you use iso-8859-15?

Kind regards
keld



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