----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Re: Dutch currency symbol
> > Does unicode have a code point for the former dutch currency symbol? > > Yes. U+0192 (which should be decimal 0402) [Alt]-0402 indeed gives the ƒ on my system. Somehow it does not work in email. I have to make it in wordpad and then copy and paste it to email. [ ... ] > What Elowyn of Moonglow is referring to are codes for > Windows Code Page 1252: > > Windows 1252 Unicode > 0x83 --> U+0192 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK (used for florin) > 0x84 --> U+201E DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK > 0x86 --> U+2020 DAGGER > 0x87 --> U+2021 DOUBLE DAGGER > > The incantations he cites: > > [Alt]-025219 > [Alt]-025220 > [Alt]-025222 > [Alt]-025223 > > respectively, are Windows incantations referring to Windows > 1252 character input, rather than decimal codes referring to > Unicode code points directly. Modulo 256 incantations? > Perhaps Elowyn has been partaking too many of his own potions. > At the very least the title of his paper, "Unicode Text", is > a bit misleading. ;-) > > --Ken >
