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@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 relatively recently. In plain
Info, it is the word `Euro '. (The space is included in the text
transliteration since typically there would be no space 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 @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).