Re: [gentoo-user] For everyone missing <ALT>+0128 to type the Euro symbol...

["Mikko 'Mr. Ethics' Ruuska" <mikko.ruuska@solidtech.com>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:25:23PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> If you're using English, the default is iso-8859-1 (us english), which 
> does not contain many characters used in other Latin-based languages 
> that have things like accents.
> 
> iso-8859-15 is west european languages, which has all the English 
> language characters, plus stuff like the circumflex and other accents, 
> and umlauts and of course, the Euro symbol, since one needs those 
> characters to type effectively in a West European language, whereas you 
> don't if you're typing in US English.
> 

Well, actually iso-8859-1 is also known as Latin-1, and not without a
reason. It _has_ all the usual latin-based thingies and the only
difference between iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 is the euro symbol
(which no one should use as we have the letter e that does the thing
quite nicely.  Although euro does replace the oh-so-often-used
"international currency symbol" or some such).

Mikko

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