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Re: Towards better euro support in Debian



On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:54:53AM +0100, Nicolas SABOURET wrote:
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:

...

> As far as I've seen, it is a very hard task. I had to make a very
> complete documentation to answer all user's specific questions.
> Plus I believe the solution you adopt depend on the language you use. OK
> for iso8859-1 languages (spanish, german, french for instance), but what
> about other languages.

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.


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