I demand that Miquel van Smoorenburg may or may not have written... > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The best one is where microsoft put their symbol in >> 'iso-8859-1'-cp1252-winlatin1, which is in 80, instead of a4 where >> iso-8859-15 puts it. What does most codepages use? 80 or A4? Does >> iso-8859-1 even have anything in 80? Is this going to lead to lots of >> confusion?
> Ah, so *that's* why I'm seeing a lot of open squares on webpages where I > should see a Euro symbol. Instead of using iso8859-15, the site is using M$ > bastard-8859-1. Well perhaps the Linux distro's should follow that example, > put a Euro symbol at 0x80 in the 8859-1 charset. It would not be completely > standards-compliant but it would be easy and useful. Or would that make us > just as bad as Microsoft where standards are concerned? There is precedent for this elsewhere; the E**o character appears at 0x80 in RISC OS 4's Latin* character sets. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling "Bother", said Pooh, as he received his telephone bill.