Re: Euro in Xy3

["R Tennenbaum"]

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:05:32 -0700 (MST), Carlo Caballero wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Derukugi wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to fake a Euro symbol with an entry
>> in a .prn file so that I can print it from XY3?
>> Tia
>>
>> --Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
>
>Dear Rene,
>   Quite possibly. It would help if I could remember what the Euro
>symbol looked like...!


It's a little "c" impaled with an equal sign. Go to

	http://www.stri.is/TC304/Euro/default.html

to see it, and go to

	http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4nisse/Euro_Sign.html

to see whether your browser supports it.

I've been told that the latest fixpacks for OS/2 support the euro in
codepage 850 (Alt-213, so I'm told) but I'll be damned if I can pull it
up. Can't even see it in the browser, but I haven't spent a lot of
time trying to get Unicode working here.

If Mr. Holmgren isn't way ahead of the rest of us on this I'll eat my
hat.

Rafe T.

raphaelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ray-field.com



>Before XY4 gave us a fuller set of foreign
>characters, I wanted the French ligature "oe" in XY3 and wrote some
>printer commands into the .PRN file to "make" the character. Of course I
>had to define a new width (very wide!) for this special character,
>especially in majescule, and certain fonts needed different widths. But
>most worked very well with just one "average" width.
>   Is there a way you can smash two characters together or overlay them
>to form the Euro symbol?