- From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:29:42 +0100
- To: "'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>
Re-statement of the proposition In case someone has not noticed, the euro is very, very, very important for the Europeans. Much more than ASCII. 1) Unicode There is already the position 20A0 "EURO-CURRENCY SIGN" Only the glyph does not correspond. But as the standard does not define the glyph (there are only indicative), this could be considered a "typo" and just one needs just correct the glyph (no back-editing). Hence, no need for 20AC with all the confusion that this could add. 2) 7 and 8 bits First, one has to agree on: - The euro is not necessary in 7 and/or 8 bits. - The euro is necessary in 7 and/or 8 bits. If one agrees that the euro is necessary in 7 and/or 8 bits, one needs to *define* (thanks Larry) a new character set. If one goes for the range 128-255, this will not cover that 7 bits and again no euro or another position is needed in the range 0-127. Hence, to cover boths just go for the range 0-127. So two new character sets are proposed: - 7 bits : euro-ASCII (or ESCII) The same as ASCII but with the replacement of "|" (007C) for the euro. - 8 bits : euro-Latin1 The same as Latin1 (ISO 8859-1), but with the replacement of "|" (007C) for the euro. 3) HTML A new entity € Regards Tomas
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