[Fontinst] Adding unencoded glyph

[Walter Schmidt]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:39:28 +0200, Hilmar Schlegel wrote:

>BTW, it is rather pointless to use Euro from a specific font.

Why?

>Another way would be to request from Linotype a *functional* font 
>program (correct naming of characterstrings)

Putting a (second) Euro into the 'currency' slot is common 
practice, because this is the only way to make the Euro 
accessible in certain programs.  (In particular on Mac, 
as far as I know.)  It's a dirty trick, but it doesn't do 
any serious harm.

Walter