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SubjectRe: Euro symbol
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Erik Corry wrote:

> Why does the Euro need a special character anyway? Most of
> the currencies it replaces don't have a special character.
> Perhaps we could just refer to it as 'The currency formerly
> known as the Euro' and thus avoid having to use a special
> symbol...

The question is not whether it does need it or not -- the uncontrolled
semi-gods at the DG/X have decided it does [mainly on the assumption that
the worldwide usage of the currency will be at least greater than the
combined worldwide usage of the currencies it aims to replace. Well, for
the DEM, that's yet to be seen). "Some" competing OSes will/do(*)
implement support for it (albeit in a non-standard way). Standards
comittees are working on it (at comittee speed). Keyboard manufacturers
agreed (or follow you-know-whose will) to put the symbol on the "E" key
with a Alt-E (or perhaps AltGr-E/Alt-Ctrl-E binding -- Alt-E would
somewhat be in the way of menu accelerators, namely for the &Edit menu,
which is found in most EU locales of Windows programs).

With Linux being pushed into being also a 'mainstream' and end-user OS
(why would the KDE, GNOME etc.. projects exists, anyway ?), someone
(certainly not me !) has to decide whether that key is to be supported,
and if yes, how (real support or a FAQ entry telling that "this will not
really be supported").
If my voice was of any weight (and it certainly is of none), I'd vote for
the inclusion, at the bare minimum in fs/nls to match Microsoft's
"Technological Breakthroughs[tm]", and of course somewhere into XF86.

Traditional 7-bit big iron systems still in use today don't need the EUR
symbol -- most of those dealing with money are run by banking
institutions, where all currency symbols are 3-letter in the 32-127 range
of the ECMA-43 charset.


-- Cyrille.





(*) MS claims to have a patch for NT4/SP3/i386 available right now.
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