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SubjectRe: Euro symbol
Linux must be compatible with the political standards which rule today's
economy if it is to succeed. Supporting Euro (which is pronounced (in
Danish notation) øvro, or actually as in french or german 'euro') is a
duty.

Johan Myréen wrote:
>
> On 17 Apr 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > I thought it had been assigned code point U+20A0 EURO-CURRENCY SIGN a
> > long time ago? (It's listed in Unicode 2.0; I am pretty sure it is
> > older than that.)
>
> You are joking, right? Do you really expect people and
> programmers to start using and supporting Unicode in the near
> future?
>
> The IT community has barely started feeling comfortable with
> the 8-bit character sets, although they still create a lot of

You mean ISO-8859-1?

> confusion especially in Northern America, where 8-bit
> characters are still commonly referred to as "High ASCII" and
> "Funky control characters". (As seen in the
> "Patch-with-the-non-breaking-space" discussion on this mailing
> list.) If the transition from seven to eight bits causes this
> much pain, I don't see Unicode coming very soon. At least not
> if the only driving force is one single symbol.
>
> Well, maybe the year Sweden joins the EMU...

Denmark isn't!

>
> --
> Johan Myreen
> jem@iki.fi
>
> Ps. The Finnish parliament today voted in favour of Finland
> joining the EMU.
>
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