RE: Euro in Windows double-byte code pages

From: Cathy Wissink (cwissink@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 27 2002 - 10:42:06 EST


932 does not have a Euro in it, but all other Windows DBCS (936, 950, 949) codepages do.

For more information, please see http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/017/default.asp#q3 as well as http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/articles/euro.asp

Cathy

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Ewell [mailto:dewell@adelphia.net]

Ken Krugler <ken@transpac.com> is wondering:

> I'm wondering if anybody (say, for example, Kenneth) has information
> on the addition of the Euro to the various Windows double-byte code
> pages (CP950, CP932, CP936, CP949). In particular, was the the Euro
> added to CP932 for Windows 2000-J (at location 0x80), or is this just
> a wild rumor?

Unicode maintains a set of Windows code page mapping tables at
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/. (There
are lots of non-Windows tables too; start from MAPPINGS in the above
URL.)

Oddly, of the four Windows DBCS character sets, only CP932 has not been
updated since 1998-04-15, and that table does not have a mapping for
U+20AC EURO SIGN. Code position 0x80 is undefined, however, so MS may
have added it there.

The other three tables are all dated 2000-01-07, and show the EURO SIGN
at the following positions:

    936 0x80
    949 0xA2E6
    950 0xA3E1

Hope this helps,

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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