I should have included here that the fonts used by my Netscape and Kmail
preferences at the moment are (Adobe) Times and (Adobe) Courier for
proportional and fixed font spacings, respectively. Perhaps a change or
upgrade to my fonts would solve the problem.
Jim
"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Louis, the euro symbol did not display properly in
> either Netscape nor in Kmail on my linux system. I see your message was
> sent in ISO 8859-1 but both programs show me a strange symbol (circle
> with four radiating lines at 045, 135, 225, and 315 degrees). The
> message source says that the character that was sent was "=A4". I
> notice that $ is a shift-4 on my US keyboard and wonder if that's what
> A4 indicates?
>
> Jim
>
> On Friday 29 June 2001 1707, Louis JOURDAN wrote:
> > At 16:09 -0400 01/06/29, Nat Hager III wrote:
> > >Interesting article on the logistics of Euro-conversion, from next
> > > week's Business Week International. Makes US metric conversion
> > > look like a walk in the park.
> >
> > Yeah... At least Euro-conversion is thoroughly prepared, whilst the
> > US metric conversion...
> >
> > Seriously, don't give too much credit to this article. Euro is
> > already a reality for many people, and conversion will go smoothly.
> > If some journalists want to make it a nightmare, that is their
> > problem.
> >
> > Interesting : do you know how I get the euro symbol � with my new
> > MacOS (9.1) ? by typing "option-$". In other words the euro is just
> > an alternative to the dollar ?
> >
> > Louis
>
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