From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 9:22:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF99B37B419 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:22:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.152.201]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020105172249.HNQK19499.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:22:49 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g05HMNn63135; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:22:23 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g05HLFp05124; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:21:15 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:21:15 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Nuno Teixeira Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 vs ISO-8859-15 change Message-ID: <20020105172115.B3601@localhost> References: <20020105165136.C519@gw.tex.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020105165136.C519@gw.tex.bogus>; from nunotex@pt-quorum.com on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:51:36PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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