The Euro is Alt-0128. However, it's not included in the fonts that come with
the older operating systems.
I have Windows 98 Second Edition on a Compaq Presario and Windows Me on a
Dell Inspiron laptop. The Arial font that was installed with the upgrades
includes the euro symbol. As I have Arial as the default font for plain text
and HTML format messages, I can see the euro when someone uses it.
Windows Me has it for several fonts, including Times Roman, Courier New, and
Verdana. (I haven't checked everything.) Windows 98 SE doesn't appear to
have it for anything but Arial. I suspect Windows 2000 Professional has the
same font support as Windows Me.
If you have one of the newer operating systems, just change your email
software's default font to Arial and you'll be able to see this
character --> �, and it won't look like this one -->�.
If you don't want to do that, try copying and pasting this message into your
word processor (Edit/Select All/Ctrl-c, switch to word processor window,
then Ctrl-v/Edit/Select All, then select the Arial font from the scrollable
font field. That first rectangle will be magically replaced by a Euro
symbol.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Norman Werling
> Sent: December 23, 2000 18:13
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10007] Symbol for Euro
>
>
>
> To all,
>
> Did I see someone use � as the Euro symbol? Is this correct?
>
> I found this symbol on my character map as Alt+0129, Alt+0157 and
> Alt+0158.
> These three look exactly the same to me � � �. Right?
>
> Norm
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