-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have >> happened. > > Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I > mean, why limit that idea to just the Euro symbol?
Said nothing about "limit" and "only". The point was that when US h/w is internationalized enough to have foreign symbols on it, typing them will be, by default, mundane. Until then, console apps (and thus the OS) won't be UTF-friendly. > Why not > include the Yen, or the Korean Won, the British pound (they're > still using their own money, aren't they?), not to mention the > thousands of other symbols used by other cultures... > >> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? >> > > Copy-paste from a web page or other source which has it? I keep > a file in my home directory with a few common symbols that are > hard or impossible to type with a US keyboard: That's > ? ? ? ¥ £ ¤ × ÷ © ® ° ± ² ³ · ? ? ? ? ? ? > >> P.P.S. - How do you do the same from the console? > > No idea... > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEnra4S9HxQb37XmcRAgTfAKDVwpsV1f8wvkJJ9p8J7jwxujcaawCeJfBR VscGdlOLN+scxuBoCm5qvHY= =YjLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]