Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-10 Thread Peter Makholm
Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. > Why is the "@euro" needed ? A few often used chars has changed. So it is important to know which cahrset is used. For example 1/2 and the french oe-ligature seems to be on the sa

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess that the o with four little tick marks must be some sort of > currency symbol in some country... Iirc, it's not a currency symbol anywhere... it's just sort of a generic symbol. Yes, so says Bringhurst... it's a generic symbol to provide a placehol

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Brian May
> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> so _everyone_ should be showing it as the "o with four little >> tick marks". (What a weird character... it has to have a name, >> right?) Josip> Hmm, Josip> % echo -n ¤ | od -t d2 000 164 001 Josip> %

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
>> My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢) > If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as > "iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1". Sorry. My mailer is not set correctly. (this is intentional, but for something not related to this discussion). Actually I set it back to -1 because some mail servers are direc

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢) If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as "iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1". -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Today you'll start getting heavy metal radio on your dentures.

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:18:05PM -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > es_ES ISO-8859-1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 > > Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. > Why is the "@euro" needed ? For LC_CURRENCY. If you don't care about that - I can't think of

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> I know that Debian is a volunteer organization. After all I'm in the > middle of the NM process ;-) I only want to ask people (or at least > European people) if someone is doing something, or thinks that something > must be done. What I don't want to do is to start fixing those things by > hand,

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> es_ES ISO-8859-1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. Why is the "@euro" needed ? Wolfgang

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Hasso Tepper
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 23:27:39 +0200, Hasso Tepper escribió: > [...] > > > As I said something is done already. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0105/msg00712.html > > Oh, sorry. I read your mail, and later I forgot it. > > > iso-8859-15 is very important for E

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El 09 May 2001 23:27:39 +0200, Hasso Tepper escribió: [...] > > As I said something is done already. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0105/msg00712.html Oh, sorry. I read your mail, and later I forgot it. > > iso-8859-15 is very important for Estonian users as well. Of course > there

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Hasso Tepper
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 15:36:59 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > This is a volunteer organization. No one's going to object if you > > submit bugs on the packages with patches to make iso-8859-15 > > versions. (Remember that iso-8859-15 differs from iso-8859-1 by > > more

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El 09 May 2001 15:36:59 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > This is a volunteer organization. No one's going to object if you > submit bugs on the packages with patches to make iso-8859-15 > versions. (Remember that iso-8859-15 differs from iso-8859-1 by more > than just the Euro.) (Bugs without p

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:08:42PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 13:51:15 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > Yep. If you go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/, there's a number of files > > with locales listed in them. Add [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > to them. (Th

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El 09 May 2001 13:51:15 -0500, David Starner escribió: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: [...] > > > In XF86config I have the "XkbLayout" "es" in the InputDevice section. > > This must include the euro symbol in AltGr+e. > > This must, or this does? Un

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol' > > pong. > > Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show > different charsets. 8^) (A rather dec

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:26:02PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > with the right font, -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15, and the right > keystrokes, compose+o+x, you can get the proper euro symbol. If you're running in a properly set-up iso8859-15 locale, you'd be using /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:08:54PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > And? Due to the limitations of your technology, you're misdisplaying > the character in the iso8859-15 rxvt. no, it was user-error. since i don't see the content-type header, i did not think to change it to the -15 revision that i

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:04:17PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two > > different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this: > > You're using an iso8859-15 font to display is

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:47:03AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Your Content-Type was " > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > so _everyone_ should be showing it as the "o with four little tick > > mark

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Shutko
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two > different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this: You're using an iso8859-15 font to display iso8859-1 messages. Don't you see how that's wrong? -- Alan Shutko <[EMA

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Shutko
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mutt is pretty good about displaying different charsets, maybe even > better than some of the "graphical" mailers. Cool! Useful thing to know. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The less time planning, the more time progra

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol' > > pong. > > Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show > different charsets. 8^) (A rather dec

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > Hello, I have been trying to set Debian to display Euro symbol in X > Window, but I have found some problems. > > First of all, I have uncommented in /etc/locale.gen this two lines: > > es_ES ISO-8859-1 > [EMAI

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > > four little tick marks on it) >

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > > four little tick marks on it) > > Your Content-Type was " > > Content-Type: text/plain

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol' > pong. Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show different charsets. 8^) (A rather decent reason for preferring a "graphical" mailer over mutt, though I don't kn

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > > four little tick marks on it) >

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Shutko
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > four little tick marks on it) Your Content-Type was " Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 s

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > Does anybody knows where is the problem and also how this can be > solved? it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with four lit

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Hasso Tepper
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > And also the Euro key doesn't work at all (it is not only the > problem of not having any font wich displays this symbol, something > which also must be worked). Ville Hallik modified some fonts to display all Latin0 glyphs and euro symbol as well for Estonian u

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: >... > And also the Euro key doesn't work at all (it is not only the problem > of not having any font wich displays this symbol, something which also > must be worked). When I press AltGr+e the cursor does not move. But the

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El 09 May 2001 12:03:28 +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo escribió: > Hello, I have been trying to set Debian to display Euro symbol in X > Window, but I have found some problems. [...] I have posted this to -devel because I think this is not an issue that each Debian user must solve. The Euro is

how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
Hello, I have been trying to set Debian to display Euro symbol in X Window, but I have found some problems. First of all, I have uncommented in /etc/locale.gen this two lines: es_ES ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 When I run locale-gen, this two locales are generated: es_ES