At 01:37 PM 1/3/99 -0800, Barry Lee Brisco so eloquently stated:
>>Hey:
>>
>>>From another list -- Euro symbol.
>>
>>George
>>
>>>
>>>I just read and confirmed by testing that on Windows PCs,
>>>at least, and in the most common fonts, i.e. Times Roman,
>>>Arial and Courier, the new Euro currency symbol (*) can
>>>be created by typing <alt>0128. (the leading zero is
>>>required).
>>>
>>>BTW, supposedly the Mac version is Option-shift-2.
>>>
>>>I suppose all this might depend on the recency of one's
>>>font files, but being able to communicate readily about
>
>
>Hmm... not on my new Mac. I get this odd character
>
> �
>
>when I try your suggestion.
>
>How could the Euro symbol be anticipated by font designers years ago? This
>doesn't seem possible.
>
I just discovered on the PC that you need to use the numeric
keypad when using alt 0128 and you get �
The character looks like a capital C with an equal sign in the
middle. The font is available on Win 98 and can be downloaded on
Win 95 from the Microsoft site.
George
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