Some people with newer software (Office 2000, etc) seem not to have a problem. For those of us stuck with "old" stuff, the following may be helpful.

The "euro" character is UNICODE character number (hex) 20AC. This is decimal number 8364.

You can post the character in http (on mudcat) using the character encoding € or €

As € it should look like €.
As € it should look like €.

If you don't see a sort of a "capital C" with two little "bars" through it, the following may help.

Generally, the character "identity" is preserved - on mudcat, on the web generally, and even if you paste the text into your favorite word processor.

The character will be visible only if it is defined in the font you are using to view the web page or document. If you see little squares, dots, asterisks or some other kind of "splat" glyph, it merely means that the font you are using to represent the "intelligence" that someone posted simply does not know how to "draw" character number x20AC (8364).

Whether you are using US English, European English, Unicode, or some other "general setting" has little directly to do with whether you see the character.

A quick survey of fonts that I have on my machine shows that relatively few "popular standard" fonts can display the "euro" symbol. All of the fonts that I found containing the euro symbol are TrueTypes. This probably just means that most of my Adobe fonts are getting old.

Setting your display font selection to one of the following may pop the euro symbol up - if you have the same font versions I do (Win98 and Office97, generally).

(As I have not checked the full character sets for any of these, it is possible that setting one of these as your display font could make some other things disappear, so keep track of your original settings so you can go back if needed.)

In the font versions I have, the following include the "euro" character: Albertus Extra Bold or Albertus Medium
Antique Olive
Arial Black
Book Antiqua
Century Gothic
CG Omega or CG Times
Clarendon Condensed
Comic Sans MS
Complex
Coronet
Courier New (Including Baltic, CE, Cyr, Greek, Tur extended Courier New)
Gothic E, Gothic G or Gothic I
Greek C or Greek S
Helvetica Narrow
Impact
ISOCP, ISOCP2, ISOCP3, ISOCT, ISOCT2, or ISOCT3
Italic, ItalicC or ItalicT
ITC Avante Garde Gothic or ITC Avante Garde Demi
ITC Bookman, ITC Bookman Demi, ITC Bookman Light
ITC Zapf Chancery
Letter Gothic
Lucida Console
Marigold
Monotxt
New Century Schoolbook
OCR B MT
Palatino
RomanC, RomanD, RomanS, or RomanT
ScriptC or ScriptS
Simplex
Tahoma
Txt
Univers, or UniversCondensed
Verdana

If you want to change your font selection to something you can use generally - that includes this symbol, Palatino might be a good alternate to a Times type of serif font. Century Gothic is not too bad as a sanserif replacement for Arial or Helvetica.

John