Re: euro entity from Chris Wendt on 1998-10-15 (www-international@w3.org from October to December 1998)

From: Chris Wendt <christw@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:54:46 -0700
To: "Erik van der Poel" <erik@netscape.com>, "Liam Quinn" <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Cc: "W3 I18N" <www-international@w3.org>
Message-ID: <02c601bdf7d6$67d02c40$ec86389d@christw2.dns.microsoft.com>

Liam Quinn wrote:
>Perhaps it's a Win95 problem then.  I tested with Navigator 4.5b2 and 4.07
>on Win95 and just got a square with the Times New Roman font.  IE5 gives me
>the euro with Times New Roman for &#8364; and &#x20AC (though IE 5.0b1
>doesn't support &euro;).  (According to
><http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm>, NT's Service Pack 4
>includes updated codepages for the euro, but there are no updated codepages
>for Win95 that I can find.)

IE5 beta 2 will support the &euro; entity.

The Win95 Euro support can be downloaded from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp (currently as beta only - it
includes Euro enabled Arial and Times New Roman and the updated 125x code
pages but not Euro-enabled MS Sans Serif).

Received on Wednesday, 14 October 1998 20:55:11 UTC