From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> To: Debian News Channel <debian-news@lists.debian.org> Subject: Euro Support in Debian Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:00:42 +0100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Euro Support in Debian press@debian.org December 31st, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On January 1, 2002, twelve of the countries in the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will give up their own currencies and adopt the new Euro (EUR) currency: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. The Vatican City is also participating in the changeover. Countries that have used the currency of one of the above countries will adopt the Euro as well. This makes it a total of about fourty countries which will share one single common currency. Since the Euro currency is represented by a symbol of its own, supporting this requires some adjustments in operating systems. Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote the Debian Euro HOWTO which explains how to set this up on a Debian system. The document is at <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/> It includes instructions for setting up the Euro symbol both on the Linux console and in the X Window System. Additionally, special Euro packages were uploaded into testing/unstable (euro-support, tetex-eurosym) to provide easy support for the Euro symbol. See also: <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/euro-support.html> <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/tetex-eurosym.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-news-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org