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Re: EUC-JP and the Yen sign
- To: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Subject: Re: EUC-JP and the Yen sign
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Oct 2000 10:23:43 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <14825.40011.508673.504609@honolulu.ilog.fr>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
> Note also that the XFree86 "ja" and "ja.JIS" locales have as their
> primary font choice for the 0x00..0x7F range the ISO8859-1:GL (= US-ASCII)
> fonts. Therefore 0x5C in Japanese XFree86 environments will look like a
> backslash, not like a Yen sign.
XFree is certainly no convincing argument for this. Again, what I got
told other systems are doing is using the Yen sign.
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