"Derek Turner" somewhat@odds wrote in message
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shazzbat wrote:

Actually I've just discovered that the 4 key on my keyboard has a $ sign
if you press the shift key, and there's a euro sign to the right of the
4, but I can't find how to make it work. Ctrl doesn't do it.

Steve
Alt Gr, to the right of your space bar!

So it do?s!

Ta,
St?v?

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SNIP

?39, not £39. That's about £26 - special offer, down from ?59
(lucky me), not including the gas canister.
Welcome to Rip Off Ireland :-)

Ah, so that was a euro sign? It came out as a question mark on my screen, I
was wondering about that :-))

Came out as a black rectangle on mine, but I guessed.

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I'll know for future reference.
Isn't it pathetic, though, that many servers and other computersy
things I am utterly illiterate about are not equipped to deal with a
major world currency which is legal tender since 2001?
Grumble.

Yes. ;-)

2001 is virtually yesterday. The charsets used in mail and news should
conform to a standard. Unfortunately, the standard doesn't include the
Euro sign, and the problem with changing the standard is that everyone
in the world would have to upgrade their software to accommodate it.

Programs which will compose non-standard characters are, IMO, a pain.

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shazzbat wrote:

Actually I've just discovered that the 4 key on my keyboard has a $
sign if
you press the shift key, and there's a euro sign to the right of the
4, but
I can't find how to make it work. Ctrl doesn't do it.

Steve


Alt Gr, to the right of your space bar!

Yes, that does it in Notepad and other text programs, but not in the
charsets compliant with internet protocols - presumably English.

It probably works in Greek ones.

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"shazzbat" wrote in message
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I'll know for future reference.
Isn't it pathetic, though, that many servers and other computersy
things I am utterly illiterate about are not equipped to deal with a
major world currency which is legal tender since 2001?
Grumble.

Yes. ;-)
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Especially since Excel etc have the euro as an option in the currency
department.

Actually I've just discovered that the 4 key on my keyboard has a $ sign
if
you press the shift key, and there's a euro sign to the right of the 4,
but
I can't find how to make it work. Ctrl doesn't do it.

Steve

Ctrl Alt 4 does it
? (------- now does this post as a euro sign??)

"Space" wrote in message
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Especially since Excel etc have the euro as an option in the currency
department.

Actually I've just discovered that the 4 key on my keyboard has a $
sign
if
you press the shift key, and there's a euro sign to the right of the 4,
but
I can't find how to make it work. Ctrl doesn't do it.

Steve

Ctrl Alt 4 does it
? (------- now does this post as a euro sign??)

HHmmmmm!

In article ,
Space wrote:


Ctrl Alt 4 does it
? (------- now does this post as a euro sign??)

No.

Admittedly, if it DID reach me as one, I would be worrying how you
had hacked into my computer :-) Usenet uses ASCII - there is no
Euro symbol in ASCII.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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On 23/11/05 4:07 pm, in article
, "Cat(h)"
wrote:

snip

?39, not £39. That's about £26 - special offer, down from ?59
(lucky me), not including the gas canister.
Welcome to Rip Off Ireland :-)

I'm guessing that's meant to be Euros but what I'm getting is a little
black
dot and the figures following that.

Must be a newsreader thing. On my screen, Cat's original post showed
the Euro sign preceding the number. Shazzbat's quote of her post showed
it as a questionmark preceding the number.


Well I give up. When I typed it out, Altgr+4 came out as a euro sign, but
when it appeared in the thread it was a question mark.

Steve

In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

2001 is virtually yesterday. The charsets used in mail and news should
conform to a standard. Unfortunately, the standard doesn't include the
Euro sign, and the problem with changing the standard is that everyone
in the world would have to upgrade their software to accommodate it.

It is far worse than that, but the details are way off-group. I am
no expert, but know rather more than most people (translation: don't
rattle my cage, as I could go on for many hours - but I wouldn't be
able to give a full week's seminar on this).

Programs which will compose non-standard characters are, IMO, a pain.

That is a gross understatement. In general, they are just plain
broken.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Ctrl Alt 4 does it
? (------- now does this post as a euro sign??)

Question mark.

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In article ,
shazzbat wrote:


Well I give up. When I typed it out, Altgr+4 came out as a euro sign, but
when it appeared in the thread it was a question mark.

Good. If you want a short summary of the principles of the chaos,
please ask. But I can assure you that you don't want to know.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Ta,
St?v?

Question marks.

I wonder if it depends which font you use to read nesw in?

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Admittedly, if it DID reach me as one, I would be worrying how you
had hacked into my computer :-) Usenet uses ASCII - there is no
Euro symbol in ASCII.

Alt + 0128 = Euro
Alt + 0208 = Deutchmark

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

Programs which will compose non-standard characters are, IMO, a pain.

That is a gross understatement. In general, they are just plain
broken.

Ah! a kindred spirit!

Er, should this worry me?

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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

Admittedly, if it DID reach me as one, I would be worrying how you
had hacked into my computer :-) Usenet uses ASCII - there is no
Euro symbol in ASCII.

Alt + 0128 = Euro
Alt + 0208 = Deutchmark

OK, I'll try.
Alt+0128...?
Alt+1208...Ð

How'd I do?

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