Supporting the Euro Symbol

Client Support
Microsoft has chosen to support the euro symbol on only its newer operating systems (Windows 98, Windows 95 with euro patch, and Windows NT 4.0 with euro patch). It also appears that Microsoft does not yet support the euro symbol on Japanese clients. Hewlett Packard only supports the euro symbol on AS/9000 with euro-enabled clients (Windows 98, Windows 95 with euro patch and Windows NT 4.0 with euro patch).
HP-UX Support
Patches are required to euro enable HP-UX. Please refer to this web page to find information on the patches required:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/EURO/index.html
Much AS/9000 functionality does not depend on the euro support being present on HP-UX. This will be detailed below.
AS/9000 EURO Support
Starting with this release, AS/9000 supports the euro symbol. The euro symbol is not supported on any previous versions, except for some very basic operations detailed below.
In general AS/9000 (as of this release and later) will behave as well as a Windows NT server with respect to handling the euro symbol. The few cases where Windows NT server fails to handle the euro will also fail on AS/9000.For example, if an administrator does a "net send ..." command to send a message to a euro enabled client, any euro symbols in that message do not get displayed correctly on that client. This is true if the "net send ..." command is executed on a Windows NT system or on an AS/9000 server. In fact, if a Windows NT system with the euro patch installed sends itself a message with the "net send ..." command, the euro symbol will not be displayed in the message correctly. In cases like this the problem is outside of the AS/9000 software and it is not possible for HP to support that action or fix the problem. Print job titles and text parameters for the net command are two known problem areas.
Specific Configurations
All clients are assumed to be euro enabled in all configurations.
All B.*.* versions of AS/9000 support the following regardless of whether or not HP-UX is euro enabled:
- Storing/retrieving the euro symbol from a client in a data file on the AS/9000 server.
- Printing the euro symbol in the body (not title) of a print job printed on a printer defined on the AS/9000 server. (The client and HP-UX printer drivers must handle Euro characters properly for this to work, of course.)
Version B.03.03 or higher of AS/9000 supports the following, regardless of whether or not HP-UX is euro enabled (in addition to everything above):
- Manipulating (creating, reading, deleting, etc.) files from the PC client with the euro character in the file name.
  * Note: there are problems with the euro character in print job titles for both AS/9000 and Windows NT.
Version B.03.03 or higher of AS/9000 in combination with euro-enabled HP-UX supports the following (in addition to everything above):
- Manipulating shared files from HP-UX with the euro symbol in the file name.
- Viewing or writing data containing the euro symbol to shared files from HP-UX.
- Entering the euro symbol into text fields of AS/9000 related HP-UX commands such as "net localgroup <groupname> /comment:<text field>".
  * Note: One exception to this rule is that if there is a euro symbol in the message field of the "net send..." command it will not be displayed properly on the client. This is the case for Windows NT as well as for AS/9000.
- Viewing the euro symbol in the output of AS/9000 related HP-UX commands, such as viewing the comment for a group with the net command.
AS/9000 supports the euro character for the activities described above. If you have a specific need for the euro character that falls outside of this support, please contact your HP support representative to have an enhancement request placed to make us aware of your need.

Supporting the Euro Symbol

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