>Louis Jourdan wrote: >>I suspect (I am now retired) that in French economic circles, they >>are using k�, M�, ... (it's just bigger!). > >What you possibly intended to be euro symbols came through as the generic >currency symbol.
The problem is, 80 hex is *not* the ISO value for the euro symbol. There is no euro symbol in ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1). For the euro symbol, you need ISO-8859-15 and the symbol numbered (appropriately) A4 hex, which replaces the generic currency symbol. Unfortunately, Microsoft went out on its own and chose the character 80 hex smack bang in the middle of the extended 8-bit control region. I read this list traffic in a NEWS client on an OpenVMS (HP) system, so I see the above euro symbol here OK, whereas anything generated by a Microsoft client shows up as <80>. On the other hand, in my regular mail on Outlook Express, the 80 hex character shows up as euro, and the A4 shows up as a reverse query symbol. That's the wonderful thing about standards: there are so many to choose from (and thanks again to Microsoft, who once more demonstrate the principle that you don't need road manners if you're a ten tonne truck). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Wade | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EuroKom | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom; Unit A2 | a=eirmail400;c=ie Nutgrove Office Park | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 Rathfarnham | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 Dublin 14 | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
