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

From: John P. Looney (Kate) (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Thu 13 Jul 2000 - 11:49:30 IST


On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 04:05:00PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Frank Peelo wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> which is unused in america.
>
> kevin
>
> ps wait, there are other countries?

 Yeah. Like Canada, where it would be used...one day, the canucks are
going to march over that great big undefended border, and kick ass in
revenge for the destruction of the C-cedilla (or maybe they'll just bomb
the Baldwin's again).

Kate

-- 
The words of the unwary are apt to cause needless pain and bloody violence.
                                                        - Zen Master Greg


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