Euro Sign

Do all browsers/systems display euro sign ?

[HoMeR]

Do all browsers/systems display the euro sign ?¿

[Macguru]

Hi HoMeR,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.
Unfortunatly, they not all do. They must support unicode. The most supported way to write it is & #8364; (without the space)

Here is more info about this.
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For the time beeing, would you consider using a .gif?

[papabaer]

Hello HoMer,
Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Good question. I can't say for certain which individual browsers currently lend support, though I suspect most, if not all of the current browsers, do. Opera for example is making a strong effort a multi-national character support. Mozilla pretty darned thorough.

I would check the individual browser's FAQ section for unicode support verification.

Once again, welcome to WebmasterWorld!

[DrOliver]

To go 100% safe use "EUR" or "EURO". These are widely accepted, and for sure will display properly.

Out of experience the second best choice seems to be the "8364" solution, where "& euro;" (without the space between & and e) is not widely supperted by browsers.

Using .gif is the very last choice, because of several reasons: you can not be sure the the EURO-sign and the rest of the text has the same font, size, color, because all this is dependent on user settings. You cannot even be sure images are displayed at all. At least set an alt-attribute "EURO-sign" or something.

[HoMeR]

That's what i thought,

:) Thanx for your Help