Most listings of the Mac and Windows character sets, both of which
include the florin sign, use
<f2> /x01/x92 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
for the florin sign. As Henry Thompson has pointed out, /x20/xac has
been allocated for the new Euro glyph[1].
But currency is only a small part of your worries. There are a lot of
symbols, especially scientific and technical ones, that aren't
represented in Unicode. I'm not particularly sanguine about this, but
I've accepted a minimal XML for now. We can add SDATA or something
similarly useful later. People who have characters beyond it will
have to use SGML for now, and come up with some conversion mechanism
(probably involving private use areas - yuck).
-Chris
[1] Yes, glyph. The EC has seen fit to mandate a glyph for the new
currency, like they did for the little 'e' on beverage bottles.
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