Re: Euro symbol

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:42:14 -0600

"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton@erols.com> wrote in message
news:%23qxxS9ExEHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
> "McMahon" <baadmoon@dock.net> wrote in message
> news:%238j2wsExEHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> How do I type a Euro symbol in an e-mail message in Outlook Express?
>>
>> I've tried 'Alt'+0128, which works in Word & Notepad, but it doesn't
>> work in Outlook.
>
> It works for me in *Outlook Express* but it probably won't survive the
> encoding and decoding to a newsgroup. Here it is, produced by
> ALT-0128, €, but I won't take bets on its successful arrival. The best
> thing to do, especially with currency symbols, is to use trilitterals
> like EUR, USD, GBP etc. Most currency exchange web sites will give you
> those.

It worked here because you used UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 and Latin9 will show
it correctly. 

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