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<h3 class="section">14.8 <code>@euro</code>{} (&euro;): Euro Currency Symbol</h3>

<p><a name="index-euro-842"></a><a name="index-Euro-symbol-843"></a>
Use the <code>@euro{}</code> command to generate `&euro;'.  Where
possible, this is the symbol for the Euro currency, invented as part
of the European economic unification.  In plain Info, it is the word
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">Euro </span></samp>&rsquo;.  A trailing space is included in the text
transliteration since typically no space is desired after the symbol,
so it would be inappropriate to have a space in the source document.

  <p>Texinfo cannot magically synthesize support for the Euro symbol where
the underlying system (fonts, software, whatever) does not support
it.  Therefore, in many cases it is preferable to use the word
&ldquo;Euro&rdquo;.  (In banking circles, the abbreviation for the Euro is EUR.)

  <p><a name="index-ISO-8859_002d15-844"></a><a name="index-Latin-9-845"></a>In order to get the Euro symbol in encoded Info output, for example,
it is necessary to specify <code>@documentencoding ISO-8859-15</code>. 
(See <a href="documentencoding.html#documentencoding"><code>@documentencoding</code></a>.)  The Euro symbol
is in ISO 8859-15 (aka Latin&nbsp;9), and is <em>not</em> in the more
widely-used and supported ISO 8859-1 (Latin&nbsp;1).

  <p><a name="index-feymr10-846"></a><a name="index-Euro-font-847"></a>The Euro symbol does not exist in the standard TeX fonts (which
were designed before the Euro was legislated into existence). 
Therefore, TeX uses an additional font, named <code>feymr10</code> (along
with other variables).  It is freely available, of course; you can
download it from <a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym</a>,
among other places.  The distribution includes installation
instructions.

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