# American Software (IE) and foreign fonts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-software-ie-and-foreign-fonts/141999>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 11, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-software-ie-and-foreign-fonts/141999 "2002-12-11T14:20:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-software-ie-and-foreign-fonts/141999/21 "2002-12-15T00:17:40Z")

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Just a quickie: Sailor’s example of HTML encoding for € got jumped on by some software somewhere. It should read € as he originally typed.

The € symbol exists, as far as I know, only as a unicode entity (no. 8364). Notepad, as supplied on non-NT based versions of Windows (Win 95, 98, ME), doesn’t support Unicode. The symbol displays correctly in Notepad on Win2k or XP.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-software-ie-and-foreign-fonts/141999/22 "2002-12-15T00:33:22Z")

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Armilla, thanks for both posts and the heads up on the code conversion. You are right, I typed & # 8364; (with no spaces) but the board software converted it to the single chr €. You are quite perceptive as I had not noticed.

I would point out that this character is not supported in all fonts. In that table I posted I used courier because it is fixed pitch but € would not display in my browser in courier.

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