International character for the Euro (Currency)

Karl Helft

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Oct 28, 2002, 10:07:42 PM10/28/02

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Using Word 2000, what is the Alt+.... for the Euro Currency
have not been able to unearth this yet. Help appreciated.

Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]

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Oct 28, 2002, 10:21:03 PM10/28/02

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The Unicode code point is U+20AC. On most code pages, I believe it is 0x80.

Is one of those what you mean?

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Crabby Barnacle

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Oct 29, 2002, 12:42:17 AM10/29/02

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Alt + 0128 will give you the Euro.

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]

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Oct 29, 2002, 10:32:10 PM10/29/02

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This is not true on all default system locales, unfortunately (on cp1251 it
is 0x88 (i.e. Alt+0136, on cp932 it does noty exist, on cp949 it does not
exist, and on cp950 it does not exist).

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FL

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Oct 30, 2002, 4:03:53 AM10/30/02

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I think that ALT+0128 is universal and codepage independent. But I
haven't tested this in all possible system locales.

Francisco

Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]

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Oct 30, 2002, 7:07:18 AM10/30/02

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Actually, Alt+0128 is the decimal form of the number on the current default
code page (note that 0128 is 0x80). It is not valid on all code pages.

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FL

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Oct 30, 2002, 7:24:53 AM10/30/02

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I know that 0128=0x80. I tested this on Traditional Chinese NT 4.0 (with
Euro support) and it still works. Actually, I believe that Alt+0XXX is
used to input Windows-1252 codepoints between 0 and 255, regardless of
the system locale.

FL

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Oct 30, 2002, 8:00:40 AM10/30/02

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Actually, I learnt of this trick from the days of using Chinese
Win3.1+Word 6.0. Despite being non-Unicode, I could force it to accept
non-CP950 characters, like the copyright sign 0xa9 by typing ALT+0169.

Francisco

"Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]" wrote:
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> How interesting... and also how provincial! :-)
>
> Of course it will not work so well in non-Unicode documents on some of those
> code pages. Perhaps that is where I saw it not working in the past.
>
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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]

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Oct 30, 2002, 9:28:54 AM10/30/02

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Ok, try it in Word 95, then. :-)

MichKa

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> Well, this is true for any non-Unicode stuff regardless of the OS, or
> application, or keyboard layout. But since this is a MS-Word newsgroup,
> I'll stick with the .DOC format. :-)

>
> Francisco
>
> "Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]" wrote:
> >

> > Well, I don't think that will allow the application to persist data to a
> > text file (for example).
> >
> > MichKa

Mike Williams

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Oct 30, 2002, 12:00:52 PM10/30/02

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FL wrote:
> I think that ALT+0128 is universal and codepage independent. But I
> haven't tested this in all possible system locales.
>
> Francisco

If you read my posting from several days ago, it has the list of all short cut chars for all code-pages. It's in the help file.