1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
2:33 a.m.
With the Euro being accepted as the new official
currency
of a combined European nation what will happen to all of
those people wuth old computers who want to use the
character but cannot. There are a number of fonts that have
appeared on the Amiga and Windows PCs but I have to find
any with the Euro character for the Atari ST, or any other
old computer. Does anyone know of any efforts to make these
characters available to operating systems such as CP/M?
THere is also a solution for the Atari, and AFAIK a ASCII
solution: on the european charsets (7-Bit) either the #
sign (already Pound on english keyboards) or the $ sign
(already used as 'curency' sign on some charsets - displayed
as a circle with 4 spikes) is repleaced by the (stupid) E.
Or just write down the official 3 letter abrevation EUR like
used by every kind of money trading system and stock exchange.
BTW: this E symbol is one of the 4 most stupid ideas around
the euro - a typical pice of shit like most ideas developed
by politicians. Don't get me wrong, the Euro is a good idea,
but they tried to make it as stupid as possible.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK