OK, I can bring up Navigator (I assume that IE can do this too) with a
Unicode font, e.g. Cyberbit,and insert the value € and the correct
character will display. Today. Try putting in € and see what happens.
In XML, ONLY UNICODE VALUES ARE CONFORMANT - vendors will soon learn
this and guess what, for the first time we'll have interoperable
documents; anyone writing a display driver for naive MS platforms
will soon learn that in Europe, they'd better map XML € to
128 for display.
Martin, I am dismayed that you of all people are counselling egregious
non-conformance in this manner on this forum. -Tim