This is not really a kernel issue.
Guylhem Aznar has made a EURO PACK, which was announced
on freshmeat.net a while ago. The pack contains keymaps
(not a complete collection) and fonts for ISO-8859-15,
which is a modified ISO-8859-1 character set, which
substitutes the generic "currency" symbol ¤ (0xa4) for
the Euro symbol.
I wonder whether ISO-8859-15 is such a good idea. The
right thing to do is to start using Unicode, and not
waste energy on yet another 8-bit character set, but I
guess the world is not quite ready for Unicode yet.
To add to the confusion, Microsoft has placed the Euro
symbol on 0x80 in their eight bit "Windows" characters,
which is a superset of ISO-8859-1, using slots 0x80..0x9f
for extra characters.
By the way, guess what the Currency sign in ISO-8859-1
(i.e. the Euro symbol in ISO-8859-15) turns into if you
strip the upper bit on it, something that frequently
happens with E-mail messages? Yes, that's right: a
dollar sign!
> >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.
Ah, I see you are from Sweden... :-)
Johan Myreen
jem@iki.fi
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