Tom Gewecke <tom at bluesky dot org> wrote: > You can input U+FEFF all by itself in a document and open it with this > browser and display a Euro. It's not exactly the same Euro as you get > with U+20AC. Weaker, with an extra tail at the top and equal > crossbars. Perhaps this indicates a mis-encoded font on the system? > But why would no other browser use it? For anyone interested I've put > a photo of the two (BOM on top) at: > > http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/bomeuro.jpg
The first looks like Courier New, probably a standard font for plain-text files. A file containing nothing but U+FEFF would be identified as plain text. The second looks like Verdana, probably a standard font for HTML files. The mystery remains as to why U+FEFF (or the bytes 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF, however interpreted) would be displayed as a Euro sign. U+20AC EURO SIGN is mapped to 0xDB in most Mac character sets and 0x80 in most Windows code pages. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
