> 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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