Re: Bug#139826: please add en_GB@euro support

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:54:32PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > I believe that en_GB.ISO8859-15, not en_GB@euro, is what you want.
> > The creation of an en_GB@euro locale before the UK commits to joining
> > the Euro zone would be a political statement.
> 
> Well, I don't necessarily think that's the case, since my understanding
> is that the "@euro" modifier refers to the characteristics of the locale
> setting as opposed to the details of economic zones.
> 
> However, given that you're a citizen of the EU and I'm not -- and
> particularly given American media empires work very hard to ensure that
> U.S. citizens know nothing of the world outside our country except when
> it's time to grandstand with our military forces -- I'll defer to your
> judgement on this issue.
> 
> At least until someone comes up with a better argument.  :)

Stupid question from a EU citizen that happens to be in the US for a while.
Which locale setting do I have to use to be able to type and display the
Euro character on my US keyboard (ie no Euro key) and monitor? The only
english locale including the Euro character I found was the irish one, but
for some reason, which I forgot right now, I wasn't completely happy with
it. Shouldn't all citizens, and non citizens, be able to type all currency
symbols of the world, and not only $ and maybe the pound sign? I still have
a euro sticker on my 12 year old keyboard, so I know where the key should be
mapped to. But probably people in the US didn't get these stickers in the
mail...

Christian
who hopes that he didn't screw up by replacing Branden with debian-x in the
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