Hi,

Just my 2 Euro-cent's worth:

the guy who designed the Euro symbol lives in my village! You can find it
with its exact proportions on the EC web site.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/euro/notes_and_coins/symbol/euro_symbol_en.pdf

Regards,

Richard.be

P.S. off to sunny? UK this week-end - no Euros & driving on the left & not
understanding French!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Currency converter


> On 22 Aug 2005 at 8:41, Hugh Gundersen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:50:39 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >... US$ to E$ in a wink.
>
> > BTW what is an E$ ?  ? or a C with = through it for Euros.
>
> I suspect "Euros" -- which reminds me of the ongoing question: what _are_
> folk in Europe actually doing about a Euro symbol?  There isn't one  the
> ISO-Latin-1 character set and Microsoft's just sticking the graphic into
> one of the not-to-be-used parts of the character space isn't exactly
> legit [and isn't portable].  Just use the Microsoft encoding (as you just
> did) and not worry about it?  Is ISO going to do something about it?
>
> [as a side note, there's still the somewhat annoying arrogance that MS
> mail clients advertise:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> When they're actually using Microsoft's nonstandard CP1252]
>
>    /B\
>
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