Re: Euro sign in HTML

From: Misha.Wolf@reuters.com
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 11:21:08 EDT


I think the decimal Numeric Character Reference €
would work in more browsers.

Misha

On 16/07/2001 15:09:52 unicode-bounce wrote:
> Hello,
>
> further to the concerns expressed in the "Eudora" thread,
> I'd like to point to an easy solution: exploit the euro
> entity defined in the last line of
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html>
> which was already defined in HTML 4.0 as of 1998-04-24.
>
> Every decent browser should handle "&euro;" legibly, even
> if no Euro symbol is available in the fonts at hand. E. g.,
> Netscape communicator 4.7 displays "10,23 EUR", in my Irix
> system, where Netscape Communicator 4.75 has "10,23 €",
> on my PC. (Note that this message is tagged as ISO 8859-15
> and the previous sentence contains a true Euro symbol).
>
> Even "10,23 &euro;", as displayed by pre-4.0 browsers, is
> legible to some extend.
>
> For an example of this technique, go to
> <http://www.rz.uni-konstanz.de/Antivirus/TVD/index.html#B-Lizenz>;
> you may wish to try this with your own browser.
>
> Best wishes,
> Otto Stolz
>
>
>

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