From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3792 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 12:31:30 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Dec 2004 12:31:30 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CbeV7-0004av-Sh for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:31:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 10014 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2004 12:31:12 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5547 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 12:31:11 +0000 X-Virus-Status: clean(F-Secure/fsigk_smtp/405/teratoid.fi.solidtech.com) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:31:23 +0200 From: "Mikko 'Mr. Ethics' Ruuska" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Holly Bostick Message-ID: <20041207123123.GA13185@solidtech.com> References: <41B4DC53.20404@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41B4DC53.20404@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] For everyone missing +0128 to type the Euro symbol... X-Archives-Salt: c5cbe630-75bf-4d10-9244-8bceda41e8e1 X-Archives-Hash: 31856384bdf0a94f2ad2ef1c566808a7 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 -- mikko.ruuska@solidtech.com --//-- research & development http://www.solidtech.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list