Re: [Sheflug] The Euro

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nothing is impossible

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Euro-Char-Support.html

Specifically targets woody, but will work on other things too

Craig

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 12:06, Simon Brown (K. Schwieger) wrote:
> I'd like to do a little survey if I may:
> 
> Who out there has actually set up both X and the console to deal with the euro 
> character "¤" (I think thats the right one this Uni machine is not configured 
> correctly) properly
> 
> I've been trying with my machine which runs Debain woody and I've found that it 
> seems to be actually impossible 
> en_GB.ISO-8859-15 the British locale with euro support is not actually supported 
> by the libc version (2.2.X)
> 
> Debain Woody also only seems to come with two fonts, neep and neep alt that 
> actually support ISO-8859-15 which again is pathetic.
> 
> My machines other personality Win98 seems to deal with the Euro flawlessly. This 
> is very worrying as debian woody is pretty current and win 98 is 2 windows 
> revisions old now.
> 
> So if anyone out there has got en_GB.ISO-8859-15 and the Euro to work I'd be 
> interested to hear from you, distro version would be nice to know.
> 
> Also I've amanged to break my X locale alias along the way, so that it says 
> ISO-8859-1 is no longer supported. Any pointers on how to fix that would be 
> appreciated
> 
> Simon in Euro land
> 
> 
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