[ILUG] Quick question for anyone

[Rick Moen]

begin John Madden quotation:

> Does anyone know how to get the euro character in emacs??

In what character set?  ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) does not yet contain it.
Microsoft Corporation has been promoting a non-standard "extended"
ISO-8859-1 that has (among other things) the Euro symbol in position
128. 

There's been a proposal to create a new ISO-8859 variant called Latin-0
with the Euro replacing the +/- sign at position B1h.

Meanwhile, ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9) has the Euro at position 164 (A4h).  To
quote the Linux kernel documentation, it's "an update to Latin 1 that
removes a handful of rarely used characters and instead adds support for
Estonian, corrects the support for French and Finnish, and adds the new
Euro character."  That's probably your best standards-compliant
solution, unless and until we start bandying bad words like "Unicode".

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