Re: Towards better euro support in Debian
On 29-10-2001, at 11h 36'33", Radovan Garabik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă 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.
> > >
> >
> > You should look for ISO-8859-16. I have used it even before was finally
> > accepted. If you need fonts for X, I prepare few hundreds at
> > http://httpd.chello.nl/s.ciobica/fonturi/index-en.html
>
> I did look into ISO-8859-16 as soon as it came out.
> It has _specifically_ ripped off all special czech and slovak
> characters and replaced them by others.
>
I am sorry. I checked the differences between ISO-8859-2 and ISO-8859-16.
Only few letters are new. Most of then are just moved arround. But also
a lot of letters from ISO-8859-1 are now in (like (c) and others).
I don't know what are the specific Czech and Slovak letters so I could
not tell if ISO-8859-16 have or not support for it.
In your case I would use ISO-8859-2 modiffied (with euro instead
the currency sign). I try myself to use UTF-8 (because of the
s comma below and t comma below) and it is not easy and most of
the program doesn't support it. Maybe after a couple of years...
I use in fact a mixture between ISO-8859-16 and a modiffied ISO-8859-2
(euro instead currency and s and t comma below instead s and t cedilla).
Ionel
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