From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 22 13:27:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12262 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12202 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:27:07 GMT (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04992 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:26:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:26:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199804222026.WAA04992@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Euro key ? Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message