A.2 Information Technology Standards

The following international standards have been registered. For more information on international euro standards, refer to http://www.stri.is/TC304/Euro/default.html.

• Codesets: The Euro is included in the multi-octet Universal Character Set (ISO/IEC 10646-1 AM 18, and UNICODE) as the EURO SIGN at position '20AC'. The Euro is included in the 8-bit ISO/IEC 8859-15 "Latin-9" codeset as the EURO SIGN at position 'A4'.

• Keyboard: The Open Workshop on the Euro in IT Standardization and CEN TC304 support AltGr+e in the primary layout. 1.

• Currency codes: The currency code is registered as 'EUR' and '978' with the international registration authority BSI (British Standards Institute), according to standard ISO 4217.

• Markup Languages: In HTML, the Euro sign is referred to as '€'.