Re: Euro symbol (was: Re: Constants and kmallocs passed to DMA engine)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
17 Apr 1998 10:35:21 GMT

Followup to: <19980417005829.01724@uni-mainz.de>
By author: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sundiver.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> OS/2 supports it already (with the latest fixpacks); Win* does not. So where
> do we place the EURO symbol in the charset? Simply deferring to the pending
> allocation in the Unicode charset seems not sufficient to me: Just 8 months
> to go until it becomes reality (in the corporate and banking sector at least).
>

I thought it had been assigned code point U+20A0 EURO-CURRENCY SIGN a
long time ago? (It's listed in Unicode 2.0; I am pretty sure it is
older than that.)

-hpa

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