The original legislative attempt to dictate the exact proportions (and even color) of the euro sign, regardless of the font in use, was just silly.
That is very old history, as detailed on my website (http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/euroglyph.html). More horrifying is the idiotic "euro is immune to grammar" error which continues to be broadcast daily by our television and radio stations, all because people with power lacked the moral courage to say "oops, yeah, that was the wrong interpretation of the Directive which was intended to ensure clean typography". Sigh.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
