RE: Euro mess (Was: valid locales ---> was bilingual websites

From: Carl W. Brown <cbrown@xnetinc.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:01:06 -0800 To: <www-international@w3.org> Message-ID: <FNEHIHOMIIDPDCIFEJEGCEEKCLAA.cbrown@xnetinc.com> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:16:58 GMT

Manuel/Tomas,

If you do locale sensitive currency formatting the currency symbol and
positioning will change.  This means that you will get a text stream in
Unicode for example and then have to translate it to the HTML code page.
You can either scan for U+20AC and insert "&euro;" or convert all
non-translatable characters to NCRs such as "&#8364;".  This is a better
approach as it is more general.

Carl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel [mailto:Manuel.Carrasco@emea.eu.int]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:29 AM
> To: Tex Texin; Carl W. Brown
> Cc: www-international@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Euro mess (Was: valid locales ---> was bilingual websites
>
>
> In HTML, just use the entity &euro;
>
> Regards
> Tomas