Re: SDATA or UNICODE

Henry Thompson (ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
27 Jan 1998 14:50:09 +0000


Arjan Loeffen <Arjan.Loeffen@let.ruu.nl> writes:

> As far as I can see there is no character (Dutch) FLORIN SIGN or EURO
> SIGN in unicode (yet). Suppose I need to specify that character; in the

Misha Wolf passed on the following some time back:

> There is a lot of hot air on some of the lists about this. ISO 8859-1
> will not be changed for the Euro, nor for any other reason.

> The Unicode Technical Committee has decided to allocate a new character
> to be called EURO SIGN to the position 20AC. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 is,
> I believe, yet to discuss this proposal.

ht

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