Re: Dutch currency symbol

From: Chris Jacobs (c.t.m.jacobs@hccnet.nl)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 23:03:49 EST

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    From: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>
    To: <c.t.m.jacobs@hccnet.nl>
    Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:06 AM
    Subject: Re: Dutch currency symbol

    > > Does unicode have a code point for the former dutch currency symbol?
    >
    > Yes. U+0192 (which should be decimal 0402)

    [Alt]-0402 indeed gives the ƒ on my system.
    Somehow it does not work in email. I have to make it in wordpad and then copy and paste it to email.

    [ ... ]

    > What Elowyn of Moonglow is referring to are codes for
    > Windows Code Page 1252:
    >
    > Windows 1252 Unicode
    > 0x83 --> U+0192 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK (used for florin)
    > 0x84 --> U+201E DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
    > 0x86 --> U+2020 DAGGER
    > 0x87 --> U+2021 DOUBLE DAGGER
    >
    > The incantations he cites:
    >
    > [Alt]-025219
    > [Alt]-025220
    > [Alt]-025222
    > [Alt]-025223
    >
    > respectively, are Windows incantations referring to Windows
    > 1252 character input, rather than decimal codes referring to
    > Unicode code points directly.

    Modulo 256 incantations?

    > Perhaps Elowyn has been partaking too many of his own potions.
    > At the very least the title of his paper, "Unicode Text", is
    > a bit misleading. ;-)
    >
    > --Ken
    >

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