Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Worrall wrote:
>> I had "sys-libs/glibc userlocales" in /etc/portage/package.use and
>> the following in /etc/locales.build:
>> en_US/ISO-8859-1
>> en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8
>> en_GB/ISO-8859-1
>> en_GB/UTF-8
>> and I was getting strange effects with the '�' sign (UK Pounds). For
>>
> WAG to follow; does the UK Pound sign exist in ISO-8859-1? Isn't
> that in ISO-8859-15 (Western European) instead?
>
> Afaik, ISO-8859-1 is specifically US English, which (also afaik) does
> not contain the � sign, just as it does not contain the Euro symbol
No, that is wrong. ISO-8869-1 is the old Western European character set,
and certainly has the GBP symbol ("�"). But not the Euro symbol, which
is in ISO-8859-15, the new Western European set.
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