Re: The Euro-symbol

Tethys (tethys@ml.com)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:00:48 +0000

>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...

There's a patch on freshmeat today to add support for the Euro. There's
also an Ask Slashdot feature about it with some useful information in the
replies.

http://news.freshmeat.net/1998/11/16/#911245643
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/11/14/1412241

Tet

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