(SC2WG3.393) (SC2WG3.392) Euro sign in ISO/IEC 8859-xx?

[Alain LaBonté <alb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:50:40 -0500
>To: KIM Kyongsok-GIM Gyeongseog <gimgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
sc2wg3@xxxxxxxx
>From: Alain LaBonté  <alb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>X-Sequence: SC2WG3@xxxxxxxx 393
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>Subject: (SC2WG3.393) (SC2WG3.392) Euro sign in ISO/IEC 8859-xx?
>
>A 12:14 99-03-30 +0900, KIM Kyongsok-GIM Gyeongseog a écrit :
>>: From owner-iso10646@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tue Mar 30 00:22 KST 1999
>>: 
>>: Yes, there is a euro sign in
>>: NT4 SP4, but it's certainly not Unicode or anything, but Microsoft's
>>: own Windows-1252, so it's not compatible with anything.
>>: --
>>: Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@xxxxxxxxxx
>>: A camel is a trotting horse that has been constructed by a committee.
>>
>>I have some questions about Euro sign in 8859-x series.
>>If I remember correctly, I saw proposals to put Euro 
>>sign to ISO/IEC 8859-xx.
>>
>>1.  Did people try to add Euro sign (if so, what's the code position) 
>>or replace some already-existing character (if so, what char?)
>>with Euro sign?
>>
>>2. I wonder what if these proposals have been accetped or rejected?
>>
>>3. In conclusion, was Euro sign added to ISO/IEC 8859-xx?
>>(To which parts of ISO/IEC 8859?)
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>k kim


>[Alain]  The euro sign has been introduced in standard 8859-15 which was
>just published in English and in French.
>
>There is a nuance that has to be made. The euro sign does not replace
>another character as Latin 9 (8859-15) is a new character set. It does not
>replace Latin 1 which still exists.
>
>However, if Latin 9 and Latin 1 are compared, the euro sign has the same
>bit combination as the one used for the currency symbol in Latin 1. These
>are however two distinct characters. A character set is formed of its
>coding and also of its identification, a matter of agreement between the
>sender and the recipient, as said in the standard. A tagging technique (of
>any kind) can be used to that effect, of course, external to the coding
>stream (such as tagging done using IBM CDRA, or using SGML or HTML) or
>internal to this stream (such as tagging done using ISO/IEC 2022, Code
>extension techniques).
>
>Currently there is no other 8-bit ISO/IEC standard character set that
>supports the euro sign.
>
>
>Alain LaBonté
>ISO/IEC 8859-15 Project Editor