Date: Mon, 27 Apr 98 08:56:48 +0100 From: "John Richards" <john@zyqad.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Euro key ? Message-ID: <9804270756.AA19035@zyqad.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 98 08:28:20 EDT." <353DE264.2F1CF0FB@opengroup.org>
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All, You are all making far too much of all this. Once all the european countries are in the Euro we can replace the local currency, symbol keycode 243 in UK, with the Euro symbol and everything works out OK. National currencies will hopefully then cease to exist - despite our Euro-sceptics and the banks will be unable to fleece on every currency exchange. Of course for those countries that don't have a special currency sign they can just replace the British one - once we join up! > remy@synx.com wrote: > > On 22 Apr, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > In reply to Walter Hafner who wrote: > > >> The symbol for the Euro... > > > > > > Yeah but where is it in the iso8859-1 page ?? > > > > No hurry. Let's wait to see what funny code the Wxx will return, put it > > on keyboard mapping, and let European users fontedit the X fonts to have > > things match. > > Editing ISO8859-x fonts is far from the right thing to do. > > Making X display the Euro glyph is easy, but there are larger problems > than X. > > For example, if you fontedit your ISO8859-x fonts to change the currency > glyph (code point 0xa4) to the Euro glyph, that'll make it possible for > things to look nice on your screen, but then you're not going to get the > same thing on a piece of paper when you print that file. > > ISO needs to do two things. First they need to define an ISO2022 escape > sequence that you can use switch to a codeset that defines the Euro. > Second, they need to define that new codeset that contains the Euro, and > all the other miscellaneous currency characters, e.g. that are defined > in Unicode/ISO10646 but not in any other character set. (Perhaps they've > already done this?) > > I already have a query in to ISO about those two things. Whether they > can act quickly enough to produce something usable is a different > question. Perhaps I presume too much when I think that there's a risk > that they'll come back and say "it's in Unicode, use Unicode." Is > everyone ready to switch en mass to Unicode? > > In the mean time the X11 specifications and the Sample Implementation > are being augmented with new keysyms, one or more new fonts, and a > non-standard escape sequence to switch between codesets. Once ISO > defines a standard escape sequence then the SI will be changed > accordingly. > > (Now the rest of the world gets to learn how to deal with codeset > switching, which the Japanese have been doing for years. All thanks to > the Euro. :-) > > -- > > Kaleb S. KEITHLEY > X Architect, The Open Group X Project Team > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Bye John (Play Violin & Ride Bike - but not at the same time) ******************************************************************************* John Richards * email : john@zyqad.co.uk Zyqad Ltd, * John.E.Richards@Aspentech.com Suite 25, The Business Park, * Technology Drive, Beeston * tel : +44 115 922 0820 NOTTINGHAM. NG9 2ND. * fax : +44 115 967 8374 ******************************************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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