- From: Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:38:47 +0100
- To: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, Patrice.HUSSON@bxl.dg13.cec.be, "'unicode@unicode.org'" <unicode@unicode.org>
Ar 17:45 +0100 1997-10-20, scríobh Carrasco Benitez Manuel: > >There is some kind of confussion. In the book "The Unicode >Standard, Version 2.0" is the following: > > 20A0 CE EURO-CURRENCY SIGN > >in the glyph CE the characters are interlaced and the E is lower. >I do *not* want to add any character, just Unicode to indicate that >the correct glyph is the "E" with the parallel middle "=" (have a look >to http://europa.eu.int/euro.html). The Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and the European Commission disagree with you. EURO-CURRENCY SIGN is ECU and EURO SIGN is Euro. >The EURO is the currency (*not* a basket) that will come into >existance on the 1 January 1999 (i.e., it does *not* exist today). The >ECU will be change one to one with the EURO and the ECU will disappear. >They will be no co-habitacion ECU/EURO. But there will be a >co-habitacion of the EURO with some national currencies that will >disappear at a latter date. They are different currencies. Implementors may have used U+20A0 for ECU, then their data will be compromised if we reuse that position for a different currency. >The official line is in the URL above. The Commission supports U+20AC, whatever is written down at that site. >>Your proposal to modify ASCII is not acceptable to anyone. > >Formally and following Larry posting, I propose *defining a new* >character set. Not *re-defining* ASCII. User will chose whatever >character set they wish. I assume that the one that need the EURO in 7 >and 8 bits will choose the new one. I belive this is the easiest and >cheapest way to do it. If the Commission supports a 7-bit registration in ISO 2375, it would be quite simple to forward them such a registration. Kenneth Thompson in DGIII/B is the contact person we have with the Commission on these issues. >>Your proposal to replace the VERTICAL BAR in Latin 1 will have no >>support from anyone anywhere, I think. However, a new part of 8859 >>has been proposed in SC2/WG3 which will contain the EURO SIGN in either >>the position of the PLUS-MINUS sign or the CURRENCY SIGN (it seems to be >>controversial and hopefully will be resolved by the current ballot >>on the CD. > >This not solve the 7 bits problem. 7-bit environments do not use 8859. You will have to have a mapping table to Latin 0, just as you will have to have a mapping table for 10646. >>I forgot to mention that the TC304 Euro Workshop did agree that an HTML >>entity would be useful, but thought that it might be nice if it were >>&EUR; instead of € as this is shorter and mnemonic to the 3-letter >>currency code. > >I do not mind one way or another. I take note and I if there is no >major negative feedback, I will change the document accordingly. The feedback has been that € is best. -- Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire (Ireland) Gutháin: +353 1 478-2597, +353 1 283-9396 http://www.indigo.ie/egt 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Co. Átha Cliath; Éire
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