Re: The Euro-symbol
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
17 Nov 1998 19:12:18 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9811170930330.23641-100000@montezuma.acc.umu.se>
By author: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Eventhough I'm quite convinced that EMU is evil(tm) and will collapse
> soon, it still has caught a lot of business-people in its grip. And as of
> the 1st of January 1999, the Euro will be an official currency in several
> countries in Europe. Therefore, AltGr + E has been assigned as the
> standard key to display the Euro-symbol. Will this make it into the v2.2
> kernel, together with the proper symbol in the character-set? (I haven't
> got a clue what sign is replaced...)
>
> It should be quite easy to fix, and it's a good way to avoid Micro$oft
> spreading FUD about Linux not being ready for EMU...
>
This has nothing to do with the kernel. You need a font and a keymap
that contains this; and a character set. The character set of choice
is presumably ISO 8859-15, a.k.a Latin-9.
-hpa
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