Статья про знак евро

[piggymouse]

К моему спору с silpol в ru_palm_warez:

The euro sign in HTML and in some other contexts

If you absolutely must use a single-letter abbreviation for the euro, use capital E…

И ващ€:

Character entity references in HTML 4.0

Comments

[silpol.livejournal.com]

а вы попробуйте делать софту без знака доллара и продавать ее в Америке - тогда все поймете. к сожалению у рубля никогда не было официального знака, так что необходимость денежного знака русскоязычным редко очевидна.

а вот более полная цитата...
Say No to surrogates like "e"

Various surrogate abbreviations have been suggested for the euro sign. It should be evident that no surrogates are needed: when you can't use the real euro sign, use words, or the official EUR abbreviation. If you really think you need something shorter due to some space constraints, well, perhaps you then introduce an ad hoc abbreviation. As all such abbreviations, it should be explicitly explained instead of relying on readers' intuition.

A particularly harmful surrogate is the letter "e". It deceptively resembles the estimated symbol character (U+212E), sometimes called "EEC sign", which can be seen as a stylicized "e" but is defined to be a distinct character. It is used in European packaging (according to directives 75/106/EEC and 76/211/EEC and amendments to them). As regards to its character status and appearance, see Michael Everson's The ESTIMATED SIGN in implementation. Note that the estimated sign often occurs in the same context as euros, so if "e" is used for euro, the risk of confusion is very real. If you absolutely must use a single-letter abbreviation for the euro, use capital E, as suggested in the Report on the Euro in IT Standardization by CEN TC 304.

[piggymouse.livejournal.com]

Уважаемый silpol, я не спорю с важностью знаков валют в общем случае. Мне однако кажется, что софт для handheld'ов является специальным случаем как в силу способов использования, так и в силу ограничений, связанных с размером экрана. Как сказано в цитируемой статье (курсив мой) "if you really think you need something shorter due to some space constraints, well, perhaps you then introduce an ad hoc abbreviation".