>> Well, I don't necessarily think that's the case, since my >> understanding is that the "@euro" modifier refers to the >> characteristics of the locale setting as opposed to the details of >> economic zones.
I suggest that we postpone this debate until Her Gracious Majesty's Government convinces Her Gracious Majesty's Subjects to join the Euro Zone. (I'm told that there's a beggar in front of Waterloo terminal in London with the sign ``Euro accepted -- Pound preferred.'') CS> Stupid question from a EU citizen that happens to be in the US for CS> a while. Which locale setting do I have to use to be able to type CS> and display the Euro character on my US keyboard (ie no Euro key) CS> and monitor? In the short term, en_US.ISO8859-15. In the longer term, en_US.UTF-8. Note that you'll probably need to generate these locales yourself. man locale-gen. CS> Shouldn't all citizens, and non citizens, be able to type all CS> currency symbols of the world, and not only $ and maybe the pound CS> sign? Absolutely. The long term plan is to completely decouple the locale (a set of cultural and political preferences) from the character encoding. Thus, we hope that someday a Debian system will have UTF-8 locales only. CS> But probably people in the US didn't get these stickers in the CS> mail... Our student labs have US keyboards. The second thing we teach our students is M-x iso-accents-mode. Juliusz