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euro(5) File Formats Manual 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 cur- rency should completely replace local currencies for EMU member coun- tries. 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 finan- cial reports. However, for the euro character itself, the string C= is the closest representation that most of the current character sets sup- port 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 charac- ter in each of these character sets: l l. _ Character Set Euro Position _ 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 He- brew) 0x80 CP1256 (Windows Arabic) 0x80 CP1257 (Windows Baltic) 0x80 CP1258 (Windows Vietnamese) 0x80 CP874 (DOS Thai) 0x80 _ 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 follow- ing table lists these locales and the languages (countries) that they support: l l. _ Locale Language (Country) _ 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 (Nor- way) pt_PT.UTF-8 Portuguese (Portugual) sv_SE.UTF-8 Swedish (Swe- den) _ CDE users can select these locales by using the Language menu at ses- sion login time and selecting languages whose names are followed by "(Unicode)." Alternatively, users can set the LANG or LC_ALL environ- ment variable to one of these locale names in a terminal emulation win- dow. 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 ap- plications must use functions that handle multibyte and wide-character data rather than older functions that operate only on single-byte char- acters. 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 for- mats 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_in- tro(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 key- board(5) l l l. _ Keymap Description VT-Style Keyboard PC-Style Keyboard _ Belgian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Czech Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Danish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Dutch Left Com- pose+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 Ger- man Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Swiss German Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Hungarian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Italian Left Com- pose+E Right Alt+E Lithuanian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Norwe- gian Left Compose+E Right Alt+E Polish Left Compose+U Right Alt+u Portuguese No support Right Alt+E Serb/Croat/Slovene Left Com- pose+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 Turk- ish Left Compose+E Right Alt+E United Kingdom Left Compose+4 Right Alt+4 _ 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 applica- tions 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 in- stalled on your system. Printer Support for the Euro Character Printing of file data in UTF-8 format is supported by a generic Post- Script 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 euro(5)