Hi,
  Probably the best way of saying this is that the system fonts which
ship with MacOS only have the Euro symbol after MacOS 8.5.  Almost all
PPC macs are supported by 8.5+ and the few nonsupported ones can
generally be coaxed into running it.

cheers

bruce

Stefan Matthias Aust <sma at 3plus4.de> wrote:
> At 10:11 13.03.00, you wrote:
> >Sadly this only works on MacOS 8.5+ 
> 
> What does this mean?  Are there still older MacOS versions around?  (I
> think, Microsoft provided an Euro patch even for Win3.x and NT3.5 ;-)
> Would that MacOS 8.5+ restriction affect Squeak?  If you use the right
> fonts, the Euro should be shown on (Character value: 219).  If you view
> such a document with an up-to-date Mac program, you should see the "€".
> 
> 
> bye
> --
> Stefan Matthias Aust  //  Bevor wir fallen, fallen wir lieber auf.