OS/2 Warp Euro Support
The European Monetary Union is creating the euro as a new common currency
for Europe. As part of this effort the European Commission has introduced a new
character which represents
the euro. This character looks like an uppercase C with two horizontal
lines through it. The euro
came into existence on January 1, 1999 for use in banking. Euro notes
and coins will be issued starting January 2002. See
http://europa.eu.int/euro for details.
The OS/2 basic support for Euro consists of adding the euro character to
fonts, codepages, and keyboards. The euro is added to all display and
ATM fonts and to the Times New Roman MT 30 TrueType font which is
available with Java 1.1. The euro is added to all western European
keyboards and the US International keyboard. The euro can be used in
base OS/2, Presentation Manager, and in DOS. The euro is not supported
in WinOS2.
The first set of Euro support is added to Warp 3 (including Warp Server 4) in FixPak 35, and to Warp 4 in FixPak 6. This fixpak is available now translated for all Western European languages. In this release, the keyboards with the Euro at both altgr-e and altgr-5 only have the Euro at altgr-5.
Additional Euro support is available in FixPak 38 for Warp 3, and FixPak 8 for Warp 4. This additional support includes the new Euro Locales, and the alternate keyboard locations. These FixPaks (or later) are available for most Western European languages.
Euro support for Non-Latin1 codepages is available in FixPak 40 for Warp 3,
and FixPak 10 for Warp 4. This code is also available in OS/2 Warp Server
for e-business.
| Codepage | Codepoint | Description | Kind |
| 850 | 0xD5 | PC Latin 1 | base + PM |
| 857 | 0xD5 | PC Turkish | base + PM |
| 1004 | 0x80 | Windows Extended | base + PM |
| 1250 | 0x80 | Windows Latin 2 | PM |
| 1251 | 0x88 | Windows Cyrillic | PM |
| 1252 | 0x80 | Windows Latin 1 | PM |
| 1254 | 0x80 | Windows Turkish | PM |
| 1257 | 0x80 | Windows Baltic | PM |
| Name | Kind | Sample |
| Courier | (bitmap) | |
| Courier | (ATM) | 
|
| Helv | (bitmap) | |
| Helvetica | (ATM) | 
|
| System Monospace | (bitmap) | |
| System Proportional | (bitmap) | |
| System VIO | (bitmap) | |
| Times New Roman | (ATM) | 
|
| Times New Roman MT 30 | (TrueType - Java 1.1) | 
|
| Tms Rmn | (bitmap) | |
| WarpSans | (bitmap) |
The updated fonts are available using
FTP.
These should be used with care.
| Country | ID | Key | Alt |
| Belgium | be | altgr-e | |
| Canada | ca | altgr-e | |
| Canadian French | cf | altgr-e | |
| Denmark | dk | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Finland | su (fi) | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| France | fr | altgr-e | |
| Germany | gr (de) | altgr-e | |
| Germany(453) | de453 | altgr-e | |
| Iceland | ic (is) | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Iceland 101 | is458 | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Italy | it | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Italy extended | it142 | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Latin America | la | altgr-e | |
| Netherlands | nl | altgr-e | |
| Norway | no | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Portugal | po | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Spain | sp (es) | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Sweden | sv | altgr-e | altgr-5 |
| Swiss French | sf | altgr-e | |
| Swiss German | sg (sd) | altgr-e | |
| Turkey | tr179 | altgr-e | |
| Turkey 440 | tr440 | altgr-e | |
| UK | uk | altgr-4 | |
| UK 168 | uk168 | altgr-e | |
| US International | ux | altgr-e |
| Country | ID | Key | Alt |
| Albania | sq | altgr-e | |
| Croatia | hr | altgr-e | |
| Czech | cz | altgr-e | |
| Greek | gk319 | altgr-e | |
| Greek 101 | gk220 | altgr-e | |
| Hungary | hu | altgr-u | |
| Poland | pl | altgr-u | |
| Polish Programmer's | pl457 | altgr-u | |
| Romania | ro | altgr-e | |
| Slovakia | sk | altgr-e | |
| Slovenia | sl | altgr-e |
The euro is not supported in WinOS2. This character is not supported
in the Windows-1252 codepage used in WinOS2. This character is not
available on the WinOS2 keyboards. This character is not
available in the WinOS2 supplied TrueType fonts:
The euro is not in the 437 (US English) or 863 (Canadian French) codepages. You must use codepage 850 to get the euro. The euro is not on the US keyboard. You can use the US International (ux) keyboard instead.
Existing printers do not support the euro in device fonts. You need to select a font which is not mapped to a device font in order to print the euro. The euro will print correctly on printers where the system fonts are used. When there are problems, a dotless-i is normally printed instead of the euro.
You should get a new version of the print driver for your printer. These are available on the OS/2 DDPAK at http://service.software.ibm.com.
For PostScript printers, it is necessary to disable device fonts to print the euro in one of the base PostScript fonts (Helvetica, Times Roman, Courier). To do this: