14.8 @euro{} (€): Euro Currency Symbol

Use the @euro{} command to generate `€'. 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 ‘Euro ’. 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.

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 “Euro”. (In banking circles, the abbreviation for the Euro is EUR.)

In order to get the Euro symbol in encoded Info output, for example, it is necessary to specify @documentencoding ISO-8859-15. (See section @documentencoding.) The Euro symbol is in ISO 8859-15 (aka Latin 9), and is not in the more widely-used and supported ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1).

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 feymr10 (along with other variables). It is freely available, of course; you can download it from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym, among other places. The distribution includes installation instructions.