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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681808 --- Comment #14 from Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> 2011-03-21 05:14:58 EDT --- (In reply to comment #0) > Strangely, when I *select* the ¤ sign in that tab and paste it here, it pastes > as €. So could it just be a *font* problem? It is very possible it is a font *and* software problem (just look at that font in gucharmap to check if the glyph is there or not, right click on it to make sure it comes from the font you expect) In the early days of €: 1. a lot of fonts didn't include this sign, so some apps may have coded private fallbacks to other symbols (instead of relying on fontconfig because "it's not available in windows", sigh) 2. people expected € to replace ¤, because ¤ was already printed on western keyboards, not hugely useful, and in an 8-bit encoding (non unicode) world adding a new sign required dumping another. That's what happened in iso-8851-15, but because US people refused to make iso-8851-15 their encoding default instead of iso-8851-1 (as was expected by Europeans), iso-8851-15 is largely stillborn and less supported than UTF-8. And saner people put € on altgr+E instead of the badly placed key ¤ was relagated at (we may still have a few legacy xkeyboard-config layouts that put € at ¤). So: 1. if the font is missing €, its author should add it (but no chance in hell for that to happen in a freely distributable closed font) 2. if fontconfig or firefox still contains code to substitute ¤ to € it should be removed. With so many fonts including € this code is way past its due date -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fonts-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts-bugs http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
