Hi, Just my 2 Euro-cent's worth:
the guy who designed the Euro symbol lives in my village! You can find it with its exact proportions on the EC web site. http://europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/euro/notes_and_coins/symbol/euro_symbol_en.pdf Regards, Richard.be P.S. off to sunny? UK this week-end - no Euros & driving on the left & not understanding French! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Currency converter > On 22 Aug 2005 at 8:41, Hugh Gundersen wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:50:39 -0700, you wrote: > > > > >... US$ to E$ in a wink. > > > BTW what is an E$ ? ? or a C with = through it for Euros. > > I suspect "Euros" -- which reminds me of the ongoing question: what _are_ > folk in Europe actually doing about a Euro symbol? There isn't one the > ISO-Latin-1 character set and Microsoft's just sticking the graphic into > one of the not-to-be-used parts of the character space isn't exactly > legit [and isn't portable]. Just use the Microsoft encoding (as you just > did) and not worry about it? Is ISO going to do something about it? > > [as a side note, there's still the somewhat annoying arrogance that MS > mail clients advertise: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > When they're actually using Microsoft's nonstandard CP1252] > > /B\ > > -- > Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA > --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
