Re: EURO patch

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > For those of you not aware of european news, the countries that have
> > joined the European Union are moving towards a common currency, called
> > the "euro". For Linux that means we have to include a new symbol in our
> > charsets, and map it to some key (Meta-e, IIRC) in our keymaps. And we
> > must do it soon, as the transition from the old to the new currency is
> > starting next January, and will be finished in two years.
> 
> Argl.  Meta-e is a-ring, a common Swedish letter.  Couldn't they have
> picked something more obscure?  Replacing the pound symbol would have
> been good; the pound will be replaced anyway.  *duck*

Using the spanish keymaps (both in X and console), Meta-e is just "e"
currently.

I guess keyboards that currently use Meta-e for a-ring will use other key
for "euro".

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es