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euro(5)
NAME
euro, Euro, EUR - Euro currency sign
DESCRIPTION
The Euro currency is the new currency for European countries belonging to
the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Euro currency is scheduled for
introduction on January 1, 1999. By the end of 2002, the new currency
should completely replace local currencies for EMU member countries.
The Euro currency has its own euro currency sign, which looks like an equal
sign (=) superimposed on the capital letter C. Most character sets do not
support this sign. Note that the string EUR can be prepended before
monetary amounts in Euro currency in the same way USD is sometimes used to
specify U. S. dollars in certain kinds of financial reports. However, for
the euro character itself, the string C= is the closest representation that
most of the current character sets support and this approximation is not
appropriate for some applications.
Several character sets have been updated or invented to include the euro
character. Among these are:
· Unicode Version 2.1
· ISO/IEC 8859-15 (Latin-9)
· Certain DOS and Microsoft code pages
The following table specifies the encoding position of the euro character
in each of these character sets:
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Character Set Euro Position
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Unicode Version 2.1 0x20AC
ISO/IEC 8859-15 (Latin-9) 0xA4
CP1250 (Windows Latin-2) 0x80
CP1251 (Windows Cyrillic) 0x88
CP1252 (Windows Latin-1) 0x80
CP1253 (Windows Greek) 0x80
CP1254 (Windows Turkish) 0x80
CP1255 (Windows Hebrew) 0x80
CP1256 (Windows Arabic) 0x80
CP1257 (Windows Baltic) 0x80
CP1258 (Windows Vietnamese) 0x80
CP874 (DOS Thai) 0x80
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Locales That Support the Euro Character
DIGITAL UNIX locales that support the euro character use the Unicode
character set in UTF-8 file format with UCS-4 process code. The following
table lists these locales and the languages (countries) that they support:
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Locale Language (Country)
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da_DK.UTF-8 Danish (Denmark)
de_CH.UTF-8 German (Switzerland)
de_DE.UTF-8 German (Germany)
en_GB.UTF-8 English (Great Britain)
es_ES.UTF-8 Spanish (Spain)
fi_FI.UTF-8 Finnish (Finland)
fr_BE.UTF-8 French (Belgium)
fr_CH.UTF-8 French (Switzerland)
fr_FR.UTF-8 French (Spain)
it_IT.UTF-8 Italian (Italy)
nl_BE.UTF-8 Flemish (Belgium)
nl_NL.UTF-8 Dutch (The Netherlands)
no_NO.UTF-8 Norwegian (Norway)
pt_PT.UTF-8 Portuguese (Portugual)
sv_SE.UTF-8 Swedish (Sweden)
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CDE users can select these locales by using the Language menu at session
login time and selecting languages whose names are followed by "(Unicode)."
Alternatively, users can set the LANG or LC_ALL environment variable to one
of these locale names in a terminal emulation window. In this case, the
locale setting applies to child applications subsequently invoked from that
window.
Existing applications that need to support the euro currency symbol may
need modification to use UTF-8 as file code. Because UTF-8 is basically a
multibyte character encoding format, programmers cannot assume that one
character is equal to one byte of input data. Therefore, their applications
must use functions that handle multibyte and wide-character data rather
than older functions that operate only on single-byte characters. For more
information on this topic, see Writing Software for the International
Market. For more information about UTF-8 and UCS-4 encoding formats, see
Unicode(5)
Codeset Converters That Support the Euro Character
Codeset converters are available to convert data between encoding formats
that support the euro character. Codeset converters can convert file data
between the following formats:
· Unicode encoding formats and the 874 and 125* codepages
· Unicode encoding formats and ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9)
For more information about these codeset converters, see iconv_intro(5),
Unicode(5), code_page(5), and iso8859-15(5).
Keyboard Entry of the Euro Character
Depending on language and keyboard style, you can use the following key
sequences to enter the euro character. Note that these sequences are
supported only by xkb format keymaps (which are the default for CDE users).
For more information about keyboards and keymaps, see keyboard(5)
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Keymap Description VT-Style Keyboard PC-Style Keyboard
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Belgian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Czech Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Danish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Dutch Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
English Canadian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Finnish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Flemish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
French Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
French Canadian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Swiss French Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
German Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Swiss German Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Hungarian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Italian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Lithuanian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Norwegian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Polish Left Compose+U Right Alt+u
Portuguese No support Right Alt+E
Serb/Croat/Slovene Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Slovak Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Spanish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Swedish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
Turkish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E
United Kingdom Left Compose+4 Right Alt+4
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Font Support for the Euro Character
The operating system does not provide native Unicode fonts that include
glyphs for the euro character. However, the character is supported by a set
of Latin-9 fonts. The X font library has been extended to combine a number
of fonts together to provide logical Unicode fonts for applications to use.
The names of these logical fonts end with ISO10646-1. You can use the
xlsfonts utility to find out if these fonts are installed on your system.
Printer Support for the Euro Character
Printing of file data in UTF-8 format is supported by a generic PostScript
print filter. See wwpsof(8) for information on how to configure this print
filter.
SEE ALSO
Commands: xlsfonts(1X), wwpsof(8)
Others: code_page(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5),
keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)
Writing Software for the International Market