Re: about translations, printing graphics and euro symbol

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:24:40PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > The last question is how to insert the euro currency simbol (the rounded
> > E ) as part of the number in a currency formated cell and as part of
> > text in a text formated cell.
> This is not really a Gnumeric issue.  The euro symbol is only
> available in iso-8859-15 encoded fonts.  If you select a locale
> which uses that encoding, and have a font that will display the euro
> symbol, then Gnumeric will display it in the default currency list.

(and 10646-1 encoded fonts)

If Gnumeric worked internally in Unicode this problem would go away,
and you could always offer all the currency symbols. Can one at least
select a UTF-8 locale and get what one wants that way, or is this
whole area blocked up by GTK+ 1.2 being parochial?

Nick.