Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:59:12 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: Euro symbol (includes bottom line) |
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> Bottom line is: Linux must support the Euro before the European Central > Bank is foudned (in a couple of months), or at least before the new > Single Currency starts on 1 January 1999. If it isn't ready when cash
I don't understand what's the issue here..
# echo -e "keycode 100 = Compose\ncompose 'e' to '\366'" | loadkeys # setfont custom-m.fnt
People just have to agree in a value (like 0366) and a font file or patch to be available with the Euro symbol. What else is needed? Am I missing something important here?
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My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming. Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally) correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and it's not all his fault.
The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in content.
Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to learn (or pay for it;)
IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see, just for fun or to get the op.
Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of course, Linux and Linux people.
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