Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

[Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org>]

* Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@dwerryhouse.com.au> [020101 21:04]:
> adopted the Euro, but is it inconceivable that English speakers of non-Euro 
> countries might need to use the Euro symbol?

"The new Latin9 nicknamed Latin0 aims to update Latin1 by replacing the
less needed symbols ¦¨´¸¼½¾ with forgotten French and Finnish letters
and placing the U+20AC Euro sign in the cell =A4 of the former
international currency sign ¤."  (pardon the odd characters)
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html

Latin1 == iso8859-1

So, in theory use iso8859-15, and then use the Compose key setup of:

iso8859-15/Compose:<Multi_key> <C> <equal>                      : "\244"
EuroSign
iso8859-15/Compose:<Multi_key> <equal> <C>                      : "\244"
EuroSign
iso8859-15/Compose:<Multi_key> <E> <equal>                      : "\244"
EuroSign
iso8859-15/Compose:<Multi_key> <e> <equal>                      : "\244"
EuroSign

I've not tried this yet, however.

The best one is where microsoft put their symbol in
'iso-8859-1'-cp1252-winlatin1, which is in 80, instead of a4 where
iso-8859-15 puts it.  What does most codepages use? 80 or A4?  Does
iso-8859-1 even have anything in 80?  Is this going to lead to lots of
confusion?

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