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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:26:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Euro key ?
Message-ID:  <199804222026.WAA04992@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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In list.freebsd-hackers you wrote (22 Apr 1998 14:21:39 +0200):
 > remy@synx.com wrote:
 > > On 22 Apr, Soren Schmidt wrote:
 > > > In reply to Walter Hafner who wrote:
 > > >> The symbol for the Euro...
 > > >
 > > > Yeah but where is it in the iso8859-1 page ??
 > [...]
 > 
 > I already have a query in to ISO about those two things. Whether they
 > can act quickly enough to produce something usable is a different
 > question. Perhaps I presume too much when I think that there's a risk
 > that they'll come back and say "it's in Unicode, use Unicode." Is
 > everyone ready to switch en mass to Unicode? 

Well, it _is_ in Unicode:  20A0;EURO-CURRENCY SIGN

FreeBSD will have to switch to Unicode sooner or later anyway,
I think.  There is already a substantial amount of code to
support multibyte characters (but I'm afraid that there's still
a lot of work to do).

Just my 2 cents...

Regards
   Oliver

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