On January 24 2002, Sean Luke <sean_at_cs.gmu.edu> wrote:
>
>On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 08:01 AM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>wrote:
>
>> I have tried it and what I've got was a quotation mark. Does this have
>> to =3D
>> do with my german NOS 2.1?
>
>Yes. The US MacRoman Keyboard has the little circle symbol on
>shift-option-2.
>But other languages use other keyboards, of course. You'll have to hunt
>around
>to find it on the German keyboard perhaps. It looks like a circle with
>four
>diagonal lines coming out of it. A (poorly shown) version of the symbol
>is labeled "DB" on the following chart:
>http://czyborra.com/charsets/mac-roman.gif
>
>This symbol has been replaced by Apple with the Euro symbol in modern
>Macintosh computers. It was NOT replaced in the Newton, simply because
>the
>Newton wasn't being manufactured by Apple any more.
>
>If someone wants to add the Euro symbol to the standard fonts, and
>someone else
>can show them how to replace a single glyph (I doubt that's even
>possible --
>more likely you'll need to replace the whole font, which breaks some apps
>such as NewtWorks) then this is the particular glyph you should replace.
>
>Sean
>
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Thanks Sean,
but this sign even more looks like a star ship of darth vader's troops then =
like a Eurosign.
;-) Anyway thank you for your information and this link, Matze=
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