- From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:23:09 +0100
- To: "'Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no'" <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
- Cc: "'www-international@w3.org'" <www-international@w3.org>, "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>, "'unicode@unicode.org'" <unicode@unicode.org>, "'Patrice.HUSSON@bxl.dg13.cec.be'" <Patrice.HUSSON@bxl.dg13.cec.be>
> I forgot to say so in my previous messgae: Your second proposal > (defining new character sets) is MUCH more reasonable than the first > one. > [Carrasco Benitez Manuel] > I apologized for not been more precised in the original proposal. > > I wish, however, that you had targeted the currency symbol rather than > the vertical bar for replacement; the idea that a currency symbol > without > specifying which currency it refers to had any value whatsoever is > even less realistic than the idea of modifying ASCII to fit the Euro. > [Carrasco Benitez Manuel] > I am open to other suggestions regarding the position. It should not > be the dollar to avoid misundertanding. For example, > > ESCII systems: <euro glyph>100.- > ASCII systems: |100.- (at least not too misleading) > > If the position was the same as the dollar it would be > ASCII system: $100.- (very misleading) > > I wish you luck in what I consider to be a hopeless task :-) > [Carrasco Benitez Manuel] > I agree that the task is not very popular and I hate my proposal as > much as most people, but it has to be put on the table. > > I would rather prefer is all the system run from today in Unicode. > But as much as we dislike it, 7 bits system will be here in ten years > and not taking a decition on the euro is worst. > > Thanks > Tomas >
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