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Re: DAVENPORT: Euro symbol
- To: davenport@berkshire.net
- Subject: Re: DAVENPORT: Euro symbol
- From: Rudi Chiarito <chiarito@cli.di.unipi.it>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:09:24 +0200
- Organization: What, me organized?
- Reply-To: davenport@berkshire.net
Terry Allen wrote:
> Well, I'd go for € myself. I believe that it's Unicode 20A0,
> although the glyph at
> http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U20A0.html#Glyphs
> is not the one in use today. Any Unicode specialists reading this?
It's U+20AC (EURO SIGN), introduced by Unicode 2.1. Before that, back in
the days when we still referred to the European Monetary Unit as the
ECU, U+20A0 (EURO-CURRENCY SIGN) was used, as "inherited" from the Xerox
Character Set.
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