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Gunnar Anzinger pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:19:26 +0200


On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 23:07:38 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:

> > The correct way to transmit the Euro currency symbol is to use ISO-8859-15
> > (Latin 9) - or Unicode.
> 
> Latin-1 was also modified to support the Euro symbol (because Latin-1 is the default codepage for most European 
> contruies).

Do you have any authoritative source that ISO 8859-1 was changed to
include the Euro symbol? This would surprise me, because the Euro symbol
was the reason why ISO 8859-15 was created in the first place (although it
adds also a few "forgotten" French and Finnish characters).

Bye, Gunnar