Re: Euro symbol (includes bottom line)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Apr 1998 02:13:09 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980421162108.9126B-100000@lightside.ddns.org>
By author: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I don't understand what's the issue here..
>
> # echo -e "keycode 100 = Compose\ncompose 'e' to '\366'" | loadkeys
> # setfont custom-m.fnt
>
> People just have to agree in a value (like 0366) and a font file or patch
> to be available with the Euro symbol. What else is needed? Am I missing
> something important here?
>

Yes, none of the common charsets include the Euro symbol. The "just
have to agree on a value" part is the trick -- we do NOT want to
invent our own standard. 0xA4 seems to be the most likely candidate,
and I'm trying to get information on Latin-0.

-hpa

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