Re: Linux and the "Euro" symbol?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
11 Feb 1999 21:36:03 GMT

Followup to: <B6AA33FCF897D211882D00A0C984DC861E0C76@tsc-exch.tsc.icl.co.uk>
By author: Greaves Tristan TM <Tristan.Greaves@icl.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi guys,
>
> So, does Linux support the Euro symbol yet? If so, I presume it was
> only introduced for Linux 2.2.
>
> Any more information would be extremely helpful.
>

The Euro symbol is included in Latin-9, ISO 8859-15.

There is a "Euro kit" available that contains ISO 8859-15 fonts for
the console and X11; I believe RedHat 5.2 and the latest XFree86
include ISO 8859-15 fonts for X11 only as well.

-hpa

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