Re: iso-8859-15 [was Re: [ILUG] Re: Monopoly]

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 18 Oct 2001 - 10:38:48 IST


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:09:06AM +0100, Paul Kelly mentioned:
> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> > /me just paid 54 Euros (Meh, gotta get around to setting up
> > iso-8859-15 for the Euro sign)
> I've been avoiding it because I seem to have only one font that will
> display it, and it looks horrible. Anyone got pointers? Do I have to go
> down the TrueType path?

bartender [0] xlsfonts|grep iso8859-15|wc -l
    898

 There are plenty. That said, I do have a windows partition I mount for
it's fonts, so that includes the ones from Windows. But there are a load
of misc-fixed-medium-r-normal fonts as iso8859-15.

 gnome-terminal's Font Filter is excellent for finding a usable one.

Kate

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