From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 04:42:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23597 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 04:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsd.synx.com (rt.synx.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA23573; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:42:40 GMT (envelope-from <@rn.synx.com:root@rn.synx.com>) Received: from s3.synx.com (s3 [192.1.1.247]) by bsd.synx.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA05139; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:47:21 +0100 Received: from rn by s3.synx.com id aa28327; 22 Apr 98 13:32 BST Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:41:57 +0200 (CEST) From: remy@synx.com Reply-To: remy@synx.com Subject: Re: Euro key ? To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804221058.MAA01490@sos.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <9804221332.aa28327@s3.synx.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA23584 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Apr, Soren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Walter Hafner who wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Just a reminder for the developers: >> >> In the near future some european countries will get a new common >> currency, the "Euro". Siemens, e.g., does all internal money exchange in >> Euro from 1999 on. >> >> The symbol for the Euro is some kind of "round E with two lines in the >> middle". Sorry, I can't describe it better than that. :-) >> >> Some german computer manufactors (Siemens ...) already ship PCs with the >> Euro symbol at position AltGr-E (and I believe a patched Win95 that >> supports it). > > Yeah but where is it in the iso8859-1 page ?? > I can easily put it on your keyboard when I know what charcode its > supposed to have ?? > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > .. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Don't worry about that. The great politicians will decide this later about the possibility of setting-up a commission who will decide the opportunity to editing the guidelines for a meeting of technodisabled guys that finaly will decide for replacing the letter 'E' by the glyph (a '$' sign merged with the greek Epsilon) they invented and call it the ISO/8859\EURO.1$*EE. No hurry. Let's wait to see what funny code the Wxx will return, put it on keyboard mapping, and let European users fontedit the X fonts to have things match. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message