From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 9:54:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pt-quorum.com (pt-quorum.com [209.10.167.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07E437B42C for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.tex.bogus (d179191.avr.PT.KPNQwest.net [193.126.179.191]) by pt-quorum.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B80ED0E for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:56:26 +0000 (WET) Received: by gw.tex.bogus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 06C215DC8; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:52:33 +0000 (WET) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:52:33 +0000 From: Nuno Teixeira To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 vs ISO-8859-15 change Message-ID: <20020105175233.I519@gw.tex.bogus> References: <20020105165136.C519@gw.tex.bogus> <20020105172115.B3601@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020105172115.B3601@localhost>; from scott.mitchell@mail.com on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 05:21:15PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE 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 05:21:15PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: | 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 Hi, OK. I found this article on freebsd-stable list and I think that it is a very good article. Thanks very much, -- Nuno Teixeira pt-quorum.com /* PGP Public Key: http://www.pt-quorum.com/pgp/nunoteixeira.asc Key fingerprint: 8C2C B364 D4DC 0C92 56F5 CE6F 8F07 720A 63A0 4FC7 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message