Op zo 17-02-2002, om 20:40 schreef Danny Tholen: > > > > Only countries that use the euro currency have been switched to iso-8859-15 > > by default. As that is not the case of the United Kingdom it still > > remains in iso-8859-1. > > > > I could add an iso-8859-15 entry for it, if needed. > > I think this would be a very good idea, because many institutions (especially >universities) in other > europian countries use English (or even us_en) as default language because of many >foreign employees. > Especially here in holland a lot of people I know use english versions of software
The reason why they use is because on can't buy everything in dutch and than it is just simpler to use on standard language than two. Besides computing in english is easier. You don't have to translate verkenner before somebody else knows what you are talking about (ofcourse, dutch people > have no sense of nationalism in general, in strong contrast with germany and france, >where they have invented > all kinds of funny words for American things like 'Cheese Royale' for a >Quarterpounder with cheese ;-P) > For that matter, we all have a $, even if we do not have dollars here. > the dutch are not nationalistic *cough* and the don't have made up funny words *cough* driehoek *cough* blindedarm *cough* > As we are at internationalization stuff can we _please_please_please_ have an Euro >on ctrl-alt-5 for US keyboards and > ctrl-alt-4 for UK ones? Maybe you want a screenshot of my us keyboard so you really >believe it is there? > Sorry for going on about this but I didn't receive any replies on the request. > > > Danny > According to that debian euro paper it should be more something like ALT-5
