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from chris French contains these words:

The trouble is, they will insist on filling other programs' tanks with
diesel, when they run on petrol.


Though in this case I don't think MS can really be held to blame,
Sacha's just highlighted the issue hasn't she really, characters such
as the Euro, and for that matter the pound sterling symbol, that aren't
included in the ASCII character set may or may not survive transit.

Which is why the bottom line answer to this is not to use such symbols
at all and to use the three letter international abbreviations for
currencies such as GBP, EUR, etc. (doesn't apply to USD of) course as
the dollar symbol is part of the ASCII character set

Most readers support 8-bit, and most of the extra characters are
supported by that.

Unfortunately, the Euro sign is far too modern (FSVO modern) to have
been included, and you can't just unilaterally update a standard without
causing a lot of problems. It is this last aspect of which Microsoft and
others (Netscape especially) are/were guilty.

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