Re: [ILUG] tip of the day...getting a euro working in X

From: Frank Peelo (fpeelo at domain eircom.net)
Date: Wed 12 Jul 2000 - 15:51:57 IST


From: John Gaughan <jgaughan at domain irish-times.com>
>
> It's due to different codepages, Microsoft use their own codepages which
> are mostly different to the ISO codepages. When Microsoft added support
> for the Euro to their codepages, they just slotted the new character into
> an unused position in their codepages.

Not even. They nuked the capital C-with-cedilla at position 128.

FP



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