- From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:01:49 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org, Patrice.HUSSON@bxl.dg13.cec.be, "'unicode@unicode.org'" <unicode@unicode.org>
>> >>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. So we would have: 20A0 EURO-CURRENCY SIGN for the ECU 20AC EURO SIGN for the EURO Perfect for confussion. >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. Could somebody find *one* implementor that is using 20A0 for the ECU ? If such an implementor exist, how did he manage to guess that 20A0 is the ECU ? >The Commission supports U+20AC, whatever is written down at that site. http://europa.eu.int/euro/ is *the* official line of the Commission. >>>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. Note taken. >>>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. My proposition has formally two charsets: one for 7 bits and one for 8 bits. >>>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. &EUR; or € ? Regards Tomas
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