Disappearing (Euro) Dollars [rant]

[Martin Baxter]

>On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:
>
>> To be fair, the Euro didn't exist for many years after single-byte
>> character sets were devised- they can't exactly go back and revise
>> them... but I can't argue that everything unicode is always logical
>> either =).
>
>To be fair, The Powers That Be might have selected a two or three
>character money symbol.  Perhaps selecting a new single-character
>symbol, rather than being limited by provincial standards, is an
>assertion of authority and power.
>
>I think some code pages have modified versions for the Euro.
>
>Dar Scott

MS Internet Explorer renders a euro symbol if you encode € and I now
discover that if you do:

put numtochar(128) into field 1

field 1 gets a euro symbol,
the htmltext is: <p>€</p>
and if you put chartonum(char 1 of field 1), you get the result 128

The mac now has euro in ascii 219, IIRC, Replacing the "currency" symbol
that was there before. What was that for ? (it looks like a circle with a
solid white centre superimposed over an X). I don't recall ever seeing it
used. Clearly Apple thought it was dispensable.

Martin