[Groff] Re: Euro symbol in groff

[Werner LEMBERG]

> ... there is only one Euro symbol by definition now.  I see your
> point in supporting fonts with characters that look similar to a
> Euro symbol, though.  As long as the documentation makes a clear
> point that those characters are _not_ Euro symbols, but artistic
> variations of it, it is fine with me.  To avoid confusion, I suggest
> even not to name artistic variation of the Euro symbol [eE][uU].

This is a bit nit-picky, isn't it?  The rules of the European
Commission regarding to `one official Euro symbol' are a bit in the
curvature-of-cucumber category IMHO.  What two-letter symbol name do
you suggest?

> > This is a political thing.  I've received requests to add latin-2
> > and russian which are both much more important than latin-9 IMHO,
> > and I've rejected them.  Unfortunately, I'm not a fast worker
> > (having only some of my spare time for groff), and Unicode input
> > support is still a dream.  Even the revision of the color
> > implementation isn't here.  Sigh.
>
> Are you talking about Latin9 input or output? I only care about
> output.

Basically about both input and output.  Iconv will be used on both
sides.


    Werner