Re: Amaya/HTML & Euro-s (was: Re: Automatic switch between browse and edit) from David J Woolley on 1999-01-25 (www-amaya@w3.org from January to March 1999)

From: David J Woolley <djw@bts.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:01:37 +0000
To: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <199901251301.NAA05117@saracen.bts.co.uk>

> > What is the HTML definition of the EURO sign?
> > Like the Cent symbol is &#162; the pound is &#163; the yen is &#165; 
> > 
> 
> The hex value is 20A0 according to 

It's actually already in the HTML 4 spec:

<!ENTITY euro CDATA "&#8364;" -- euro sign, U+20AC NEW -->

Also, for confusion, Unicode seems to define both a "euro-currency sign at A0 
and a "euro sign" at AC!
> 



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