'[kde-promo] KDE and the Euro'

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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] KDE and the Euro
From:       Oliver Strutynski <olistrut () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-10-15 20:14:33
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The Euro is coming and it's coming fast. (For those outside of europe and not 
familiar with this topic: the common european currency will replace 12 
national currencies staring January 1, 2001.)

- From what I have seen in some newsgroups and from my personal experience, 
many Linux (and other flavors of unix) users still haven't figured how to use 
(i.e. display, input and print) the Euro Symbol and there seem to be some 
special problem with using the Euro Symbol in KDE applications, although most 
apps should be well prepared for that new symbol cause they are (at least in 
theory) Unicode-Ready.

I have collected some ressources about using the Euro symbol in Linux/KDE, 
but could not found a comprehensive guide to this topic, especially when it 
comes to KDE. Since time is running out (80 days left) and this is really a 
hot topic especially for business users, I think there should be one central 
place within the KDE family of web sites to host information about that.

I would love to volunteer or help with this, but have to admit, that even for 
myself I was not able to properly euro-enable my system (I have the euro 
symbol on the console only running both SuSE 7.0 and 7.2). So here's my part, 
a list of "Euro on Linux"-related material on the web. If anyone else could 
contribute, that would probably be greatly appreciated.

http://www.koffice.org/kword/euro.phtml - Pretty good when it comes to 
character input, but not too helpful in the area of font mappings and 
character encodings.

http://users.pandora.be/sim/euro/112/ - A great page with a lot of general 
information about the euro, last update 2000-09-21 however, so there is no 
information for KDE 2.x

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7256fa52ef5c8f41 - (German only) Long 
thread about using the Euro symbol within KDE 2.x. Mostly covers SuSE. Some 
users reported new problems after updating to KDE 2.2

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1236 - Mandrake Forum: Small 
HOWTO for Mandrake 8.1, but does not work for all users. Some users reported 
that pasting the Euro symbol from a web page to another KDE app worked, while 
typing or selecting in kcharselect does not work.

http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_de.cgi?stichwort=euro+symbol - SuSE 
Support Database: 2 Articles that deal with the Euro Symbol, no special 
information for KDE.

http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/X11/euro.html - Preparing X11 for the Euro.

Bye, Oliver

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_____________________________________________________________________
 Oliver Strutynski                      oliver.strutynski@cs.tum.edu
                                                    olistrut@gmx.net
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