From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 25 16:41:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04681 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04670 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:40:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15017; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:57:34 GMT (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981125235734.51261@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:57:34 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Euro? References: <19981125213433.14108@nothing-going-on.org> <19981126001833.A10601@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19981126001833.A10601@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:18:33AM +0100 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:18:33AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Nik Clayton: > > I confess I know almost nothing about how this issue is going to affect > > FreeBSD (except for the requirement for a new character for the euro > > currency, which looks like a 'C' and '=' superimposed). I'm mentioning > > Apart from the fact that you need new fonts and new syscons/xmodmap > entries, why does Linux need a patch ? Don't know. As I say, I know very little about this, but was hoping someone would. If we are ready (or as ready as we can be) for it, then it's nice to know because a) We can put a "Euro-ready" logo on the web site b) Someone (me, or someone else, I don't mind) can put together something for the Handbook that explains what this all means. > Anyway, we already have a ISO-8859-15 (aka Latin9) font for syscons in the > tree. That's part of it. But I don't know if that's all that's required. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message