From mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de Sun Sep 28 10:27:40 1997 Received: from faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (root@faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.2.45]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA03399; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 10:27:37 +0100 Received: from unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de [192.44.82.170]) by uni-erlangen.de with ESMTP id LAA16815 (8.7.6/7.5c-FAU); Sun, 28 Sep 1997 11:27:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from mskuhn@localhost) by unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA02532; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 11:06:08 +0200 Message-Id: <199709280906.LAA02532@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> Subject: Euro symbol key assignment (ISO 9995) To: alb@riq.qc.ca (Alain LaBonté - SCT) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 11:06:07 +0200 (CEST) Cc: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, unicode@unicode.org, tc304@dkuug.dk, sc18wg9@dkuug.dk, sc22wg20@dkuug.dk, sc2@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970927105502.008c7e40@riq.qc.ca> from "Alain LaBonté - SCT" at Sep 27, 97 10:55:02 am From: Markus Kuhn X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Alain LaBonté - SCT wrote: > It is recommended that level 3 of key E03 of national keyboard > layouts be used to harmonize the entry of this character [Euro symbol] > in different countries. Thanks for the info. I can report the first problem with this proposal in German language countries: Level 3 of E03 (also known as AltGR-3) is already used on the German standard keyboard for SUPERSCRIPT THREE and frequently used to write the abbreviation for qubic meters (m³) or qubic centimeters (cm³). On the German DIN keyboard that is sold with every PC, the following keys have already assigned level 3 meanings: AltGR-2 E02 SUPERSCRIPT TWO ² AltGR-3 E03 SUPERSCRIPT THREE ³ AltGr-7 E07 LEFT CURLY BRACKET { AltGr-8 E08 LEFT SQUARE BRACKET [ AltGr-9 E09 RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET ] AltGr-0 E10 RIGHT CURLY BRACKET } AltGr-ß E11 REVERSE SOLIDUS \ AltGr-Q D01 COMMERCIAL AT @ AltGr-+ D12 TILDE ~ AltGr-< B00 VERTICAL LINE | AltGr-M B07 MICRO SIGN µ Better keys for the Euro sign from a German point of view seem to be E04 (AltGR-4), because this key has already in level 2 (Shift-4) the dollar currency sign. Also appropriate would be D03 (AltGr-E) in my humble opinion, because the Euro symbol is related to the letter E, just as the micro sign is related to the letter M. Markus -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Kuhn, Schlehenweg 9, D-91080 Uttenreuth, Germany mkuhn at acm.org, http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn