Re: displaying the Eurosign at all

[Josef Dalcolmo <dalcolmo@vh-s.de>]

Dear Stefan,

> BTW 128 (aka \200) is not the latin-9 encoding of the euro sign (it's 164,
> aka \244), AFAIK, so the problem is most likely that you haven't correctly
> described the coding-system used by your keyboard, which doesn't seem to be
> latin-9.

my keyboard coding-system was set to nil (I use a US keyboard) but
that is not the problem I've encountered. The real culprit is once
again Micro$oft. They are using a modified version of the Latin-1
characterset (WinLatin-1, or whatever one can call it, and that is
what I've been using without knowing for a while now. Using winlatin-1
the Euro sign is on \200. That works fine on e-mail between Windows
systems. I am not sure how to solve the problem in general. I would
expect if I insert \244 in my email, using ordinary Windoze
applications will see some wierd character, but not a EURO sign.

- Josef