Johan Myréen wrote:
>
> On 17 Apr 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > 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
You mean ISO-8859-1?
> 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...
Denmark isn't!
>
> --
> Johan Myreen
> jem@iki.fi
>
> Ps. The Finnish parliament today voted in favour of Finland
> joining the EMU.
>
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