Test of Opera's Euro support using different fonts and methods

This is a test page for the Euro symbol (EUR, € €, € €, or € €) using different fonts and methods. It's used to test Opera's Euro compliance.

Format: Test «font name» Euro € € € 8-bit-char

Screenshot (Build 128)

Further information

First check if you use the following settings in Opera:

• «View | Encoding | Automatic detection» should be checked.
• «File | Preferences | Document | Languages | Fallback encoding» should display «iso-8859-15».

Bob Baumel's page Using Special Characters on Web Pages: Cross-Platform Considerations explains why there are problems with Microsoft Windows characters outside the Latin-1 set. Also have a look at Jukka Korpela's The euro sign in HTML (and in some other contexts) document.

Now, Opera supports these "special characters" (Windows codes from 128 to 159) by using characters of different fonts installed on the system. Unfortunately on my system, Opera picked B&H's Lucidux font for the EUR sign. But this font displayed the general currency symbol (¤) instead of the EUR sign.

After removing B&H's Lucidux font from my system by editing fonts.* in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ and removing all font entries containing lucidux and iso8859-15 and deleting the corresponding six font files (e.g., lcdxro.pfa), Opera uses a different font and displays the correct EUR sign.

SuSE's support database article Eurosign does not appear after Update to SuSE 7.2 describes some other things one might want to check to get the EUR sign on print-outs and in the console.

22 May 2002
Martin Schrode <webmaster @ schrode . net>
http://www.schrode.net/opera/euro/euro.html

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