Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:21:15 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 vs ISO-8859-15 change Message-ID: <20020105172115.B3601@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020105165136.C519@gw.tex.bogus>; from nunotex@pt-quorum.com on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:51:36PM %2B0000 References: <20020105165136.C519@gw.tex.bogus>
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:51:36PM +0000, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > Hello to all, > > I'm from Portugal and I use ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe). > > I've read in a article: > > "The International Standards Organization plan to replace the ISO 8859-1 > character set with ISO 8859-15 which removes a few little used characters > and adds more European relevant characters such as the Euro currency > symbol." > > So, my question is: > > Can I change now from 8859-1 to 8859-15 or should I wait? > > I have already tested changing my console (rc.conf: > font8xN="iso15-8xN", LC_CTYPE pt_PT.DIS_8859-15, etc) and all keys from > 8859-1 plus EURO key form 8859-15 works very well. If it works for you, then I'd go ahead and make the change... as the article you've quoted from says, the only difference is that a few characters have been changed. This article might also be useful: http://www.fastforward.at/~aaron/article.html Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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