Re: Towards better euro support in Debian
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:31:55AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> >
> > for Slovak and Czech, we are out of luck, since the only available
> > (unix) codepage is ISO-8859-2, and that does not contain the Euro
> > symbol. Using UTF-8 is the only option.
> >
> >
> Arent' there programs to change the fonts and include the euro symbol.
> Maybe one could hack a new version including it (even if not
> ISO-compliant...)
and what happens when you send a mail in this encoding?
no more codepages please....
we already had to live with 6 diferent incompatible encodings
in the past, now they are reduced just to 2 (ISO-8859-2 and CP1250)
and having a third one (even differing in just one symbol) would be
a PITA.
I would rather suggest to spend more energy on making debian more
UTF-8 aware, and for the time being we can get along by using "EUR"
instead of euro symbol.
IMHO introducing special euro symbol was a mistake, imagine that
every country would have its own currency symbol...
What was wrong with EUR anyway? (ok, do not tell me, I know,
when USA can have its own symbol for dollar, so can EU...)
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