RE: Euro character in ISO

From: Murray Sargent (murrays@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 17:53:31 EDT


The two statements are correct. ISO has addressed the problem by adding more
ISO-8859-x standards, since changing 8859-1 would cause problems. The best
thing to do is to use Unicode and avoid the codepage confusion :-)

Murray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Spencer [SMTP:Leon.Spencer@brightware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:26 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Euro character in ISO
>
> The Euro does not exist in iso-8859-1. It
> is in Cp1252 (WinLatin1) - Microsoft's code page
> superset of iso-8859-1.
>
> Is this correct? Has ISO addressed the Euro character?
> If so, it the issue more of vendors implementing it?
>
> Leon



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