On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Derek Martin wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have > >> happened. > > > > Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I > > mean, why limit that idea to just the Euro symbol? > > Said nothing about "limit" and "only". The point was that when US > h/w is internationalized enough to have foreign symbols on it, > typing them will be, by default, mundane. The point I was trying to make is that this is an extremely arbitrary measure of whether or not a particular keyboard, or the OS you're using it under, is Unicode-friendly. The keyboard can only be so big before it loses its usefulness... The US keyboard already has a fine array of characters on it. I would venture a guess that the vast majority of US citizens who own a computer will never have a reason to type the Euro symbol as long as they live... so why should the US keyboard have it? What is needed is a handy way to enter characters that are NOT on it... And it sounds like SCIM is the answer I'm looking for, from another post in this thread. However, as it turns out I already have this installed on my Debian systems at work), and much like the other IMEs I've tried to get working, the documentation seems to be nonexistant (or at least I couldn't find much of anything useful in the 10 minutes I had to look this afternoon). > Until then, console apps (and thus the OS) won't be UTF-friendly. Actually, you may find these helpful: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Belgian-HOWTO/configuration.html Particularly the first. While I don't speak Belgian, I did find that the second discussed several ways to configure the system to allow the entry of accented latin characters. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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