- From: Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:21:19 +0100
- To: Charles Wicksteed <charles.wicksteed@reuters.com>
- Cc: www-international <www-international@w3.org>
Ar 10:24 +0000 1997-10-21, scríobh Charles Wicksteed: >Michael Everson wrote: > >>The feedback has been that € is best. > >There are arguments for not adding a new entity name at all. >Until the entity name has been incorporated into browsers, we would >have to use "€" (8364 decimal = 0x20AC) anyway, though even >this assumes the users have a font with the correct glyph. In >about 3 years time, I would consider it safe to use "€" >instead, but I can't see any reason to make global edits to all my >web pages (or modify my HTML editor), when the only effect would be >to spoil the display of users with old browsers. So I would >never use it. There is the new part of 8859, "Latin 0" as it is called since it is under ballot. This may be in use by a lot of people without UCS browsers. -- 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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