> 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.)
You are joking, right? Do you really expect people and
programmers to start using and supporting Unicode in the near
future?
The IT community has barely started feeling comfortable with
the 8-bit character sets, although they still create a lot of
confusion especially in Northern America, where 8-bit
characters are still commonly referred to as "High ASCII" and
"Funky control characters". (As seen in the
"Patch-with-the-non-breaking-space" discussion on this mailing
list.) If the transition from seven to eight bits causes this
much pain, I don't see Unicode coming very soon. At least not
if the only driving force is one single symbol.
Well, maybe the year Sweden joins the EMU...
-- Johan Myreen jem@iki.fiPs. The Finnish parliament today voted in favour of Finland joining the EMU.
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