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You should have asked how they would encode the german currency sign (€ for euro) in ASCII or its german counterpart latin1/iso-8859-1... It's not possible. Ho

You should have asked how they would encode the german currency sign (€ for euro) in ASCII or its german counterpart latin1/iso-8859-1... It's not possible. However I bet they would argument to use iso-8859-15 (latin9 / latin0) with the international currency sign (¤) instead or insist that char 128 of latin1 is almost always meant as €, so just ignore the standard in these cases and use a new font. This would only fail in older printers and who is still printing stuff these days? Nobody right? Using real utf-8 is just too complex... All these emojis are nuts

account42 2y ago
UTF-8 is simple, it's Unicode that is complex.
- sandreas 2y ago
  Besides UTF-8 is not that simple, it still was irony :-)
richardwhiuk 2y ago
EUR is the common answer.
- asddubs 2y ago
  or just double all the numbers and use DM
  - Y_Y 2y ago
    Weirdly the old Deutsch Mark doesn't seem to have its own code point in the block start U+20A0, whereas the Spanish equivalent (Peseta, ₧, not just Pt) does.
    - account42 2y ago
      It's not a Unicode issue, there just isn't a dedicated symbol for it, everyone just used the letters DM. Unicode (at least back then) was mostly a superset of existing character sets and then distinct glyphs.
      - Y_Y 2y ago
        That would be a fine answer, but for the fact that other currencies like the rupee (₨) that are "just letters" do have their own codepoint. Being made up of two symbols doesn't necessarily make something not a symbols, in semiotics or in Unicode. In fact this is one of the root problems, there are plenty of Unicode symbols you can make out of others, either juxtaposing or overstriking or using a combining character, but this isn't consistently done.
    - tugu77 2y ago
      TIL https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+20A0 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+20A0 Even Bitcoin is there. And "German Penny Sign"?
throw0101a 2y ago
> international currency sign (¤) TIL: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(generic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(generic)

account42 2y ago

UTF-8 is simple, it's Unicode that is complex.

sandreas 2y ago
Besides UTF-8 is not that simple, it still was irony :-)

richardwhiuk 2y ago

EUR is the common answer.

asddubs 2y ago
or just double all the numbers and use DM
- Y_Y 2y ago
  Weirdly the old Deutsch Mark doesn't seem to have its own code point in the block start U+20A0, whereas the Spanish equivalent (Peseta, ₧, not just Pt) does.
  - account42 2y ago
    It's not a Unicode issue, there just isn't a dedicated symbol for it, everyone just used the letters DM. Unicode (at least back then) was mostly a superset of existing character sets and then distinct glyphs.
    - Y_Y 2y ago
      That would be a fine answer, but for the fact that other currencies like the rupee (₨) that are "just letters" do have their own codepoint. Being made up of two symbols doesn't necessarily make something not a symbols, in semiotics or in Unicode. In fact this is one of the root problems, there are plenty of Unicode symbols you can make out of others, either juxtaposing or overstriking or using a combining character, but this isn't consistently done.
  - tugu77 2y ago
    TIL https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+20A0 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+20A0 Even Bitcoin is there. And "German Penny Sign"?

throw0101a 2y ago

> international currency sign (¤) TIL: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(generic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(generic)