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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label euro</title>
</head><body>
<h3>Typesetting the Euro sign</h3>
-<p/>The European currency &#8220;Euro&#8221; is represented by a symbol of somewhat
-dubious design, but it&#8217;s an important currency and (La)TeX users
-need to typeset it.
+<p/>The European currency &#8220;Euro&#8221; (&#8364;) is represented by a symbol
+of somewhat dubious design, but it&#8217;s an important currency and
+(La)TeX users need to typeset it.
<p/>Note that the Commission of the European Community at first deemed
that the Euro symbol should always be set in a sans-serif font;
fortunately, this eccentric ruling has now been rescinded, and one may
@@ -20,15 +20,23 @@ text. The design of the symbol in the TC fonts is not
universally loved&#8230;
Nevertheless, use the TC font version of the symbol if you are
producing documents using Knuth&#8217;s Computer Modern Fonts.
-<p/>The <i>latin9</i> input encoding defined by the <i>inputenc</i>
-package has a euro character defined (character position 164, occupied
-in other ISO Latin character sets by the &#8220;currency symbol&#8221;).
-The encoding uses the command <code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> for the character; at
-present that command is <em>only</em> available from the
-<i>textcomp</i> package. There is a Microsoft code page position,
-too, but standardisation of such things proceeds via rather different
-routes and the LaTeX project hasn&#8217;t yet been given details of the
-change.
+<p/>The each of the <i>latin9</i> and <i>latin10</i> input encoding
+definitions for the <i>inputenc</i> package has a euro character
+defined (character position 164, occupied in other ISO Latin
+character sets by the &#8220;currency symbol&#8221; &#164;, which
+ordinary people seldom see except in character-set listings&#8230;).
+The TC encoding file offers the command <code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> for the
+character; that command is (probably) <em>only</em> available from the
+<i>textcomp</i> package.
+<p/>Use of the TC encoding character may therefore made via
+<code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> or via the Latin-9 or Latin-10 character in ordinary
+text.
+<p/>Note that there is a Microsoft code page position (128), too, and that has
+been added to <i>inputenc</i> tables for CP1252 and
+CP1257. (There&#8217;s another position in CP858, which has
+it in place of &#8220;dotless i&#8221; in CP850; the standardisation of
+these things remains within Microsoft, so one can never tell what will
+come next&#8230;)
<p/>Outline fonts which contain nothing but Euro symbols are available
(free) from
<a href="ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe">Adobe</a> &#8212;
@@ -71,13 +79,13 @@ good things.
<i>china2e</i> (whose primary aim is Chinese dates and suchlike
matters) and the <i>eurosym</i> fonts.
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>china2e bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/china2e</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>EC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ec/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>euro fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro.zip">fonts/euro</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>euro-ce fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce.zip">fonts/euro-ce</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>eurofont.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eurofont</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>eurosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym.zip">fonts/eurosym</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>marvosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.zip">fonts/psfonts/marvosym</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>china2e bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/china2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/china2e</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/china2e/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>EC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ec/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ec.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>euro fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro.zip">fonts/euro</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>euro-ce fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro-ce.zip">fonts/euro-ce</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro-ce/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>eurofont.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eurofont</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>eurosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/eurosym.zip">fonts/eurosym</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/eurosym/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>marvosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.zip">fonts/psfonts/marvosym</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>textcomp.sty</i></tt><dd>Part of the LaTeX distribution.
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro</a>