Re: FW: Euro for Cyrillics

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Sep 10 1999 - 15:15:25 EDT


> In all MS 8-bit codepages, including 1251, the euro character should be at
> decimal 128.

In all MS 8-bit codepages, *except* 1251, the euro character should be at
decimal 128.

"The Unicode assignment of the euro symbol is 20AC. The symbol will be
added to the following codepages at position '0x80'; 1250 Eastern European,
1252 Western, 1253 Greek, 1254 Turkish and 1257 Baltic. In 1251 Cyrillic
the symbol will be added at position '0x88'.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/EURO.HTM"

In Windows CP1251, 0x80 (= decimal 128) was already assigned to the Serbian
character CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE (= U+0402).

--Ken



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