As it has been pointed out, the unreliability of the euro sign is with the 8859-15 encoding, whereas it works extremely reliably with UCS/Unicode. And so would any other sign.
Erkki I. Kolehmainen -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta Tulasi Lähetetty: 27. kesäkuuta 2010 23:46 Vastaanottaja: Unicode Discussion Kopio: Mark Davis ☕ Aihe: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (¤) doesn't work reliably. He calls it brain-dead :-') http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.test/browse_thread/thread/929f8f60b1f29ee8/e027e91e7ef17f62?#e027e91e7ef17f62 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Prilop <[email protected]> Date: 25 June, 07:54 Subject: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today To: de.test On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, I wrote > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (¤) doesn't work reliably. in both the Unicode list and in the newsgroup de.test. unicode.org shows a euro sign:http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode- ml/y2010-m06/0372.html groups.google.com shows a currency sign:http://groups.google.co.uk/ group/de.test/msg/e027e91e7ef17f62 Mark Davis called this an "algorithm" inhttp://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m01/0273.html I call it brain-dead.
