From 1059b463280c735f4e6a9fc6af666c4c8a311139 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:14:44 +0000
Subject: faq 3.20 (18aug10)

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@19623 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
---
 .../texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex  | 36 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex')

diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex
index ed06d60b0a0..bb1b0e47814 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: faq-symbols.tex,v 1.3 2010/03/26 22:48:51 rf10 Exp rf10 $
+% $Id: faq-symbols.tex,v 1.4 2010/04/16 18:14:11 rf10 Exp rf10 $
 
 \section{Symbols, etc.}
 
@@ -331,9 +331,9 @@ Ordinary people (such as the author of this \acro{FAQ}) need only type
 
 \Question[Q-euro]{Typesetting the Euro sign}
 
-The European currency ``Euro'' is represented by a symbol of somewhat
-dubious design, but it's an important currency and \AllTeX{} users
-need to typeset it.
+The European currency ``Euro'' (\texteuro {}) is represented by a symbol
+of somewhat dubious design, but it's an important currency and
+\AllTeX{} users need to typeset it.
 
 Note that the Commission of the European Community at first deemed
 that the Euro symbol should always be set in a sans-serif font;
@@ -352,15 +352,25 @@ universally loved\dots{}
 Nevertheless, use the \acro{TC} font version of the symbol if you are
 producing documents using Knuth's Computer Modern Fonts.
 
-The \Package{latin9} input encoding defined by the \Package{inputenc}
-package has a euro character defined (character position 164, occupied
-in other \acro{ISO} Latin character sets by the ``currency symbol'').
-The encoding uses the command \csx{texteuro} for the character; at
-present that command is \emph{only} available from the
-\Package{textcomp} package.  There is a Microsoft code page position,
-too, but standardisation of such things proceeds via rather different
-routes and the \LaTeX{} project hasn't yet been given details of the
-change.
+The each of the \Package{latin9} and \Package{latin10} input encoding
+definitions for the \Package{inputenc} package has a euro character
+defined (character position 164, occupied in other \acro{ISO} Latin
+character sets by the ``currency symbol'' \textcurrency {}, which
+ordinary people seldom see except in character-set listings\dots{}).
+The \acro{TC} encoding file offers the command \csx{texteuro} for the
+character; that command is (probably) \emph{only} available from the
+\Package{textcomp} package.
+
+Use of the \acro{TC} encoding character may therefore made via
+\csx{texteuro} or via the Latin-9 or Latin-10 character in ordinary
+text.
+
+Note that there is a Microsoft code page position (128), too, and that has
+been added to \Package{inputenc} tables for \acro{CP}1252 and
+\acro{CP}1257.  (There's another position in \acro{CP}858, which has
+it in place of ``dotless i'' in \acro{CP850}; the standardisation of
+these things remains within Microsoft, so one can never tell what will
+come next\dots{})
 
 Outline fonts which contain nothing but Euro symbols are available
 (free) from
-- 
cgit v1.2.3

