Ticket #449 (Open)Sat Mar 31 16:15:46 UTC 2018
French territory uses unexpected language encoding
| Reported by: | Rick Murray (539) | Severity: | Normal |
| Part: | RISC OS: Module | Release: | |
| Milestone: | Status | Open |
Details by Rick Murray (539):
Following this discussion: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/4/topic…
It transpires that the French territory module for RISC OS specifies Latin9 (ISO 8859-1) and character &A4 (usually the International Currency Symbol) as the location of the Euro symbol. While this is technically correct (Latin9 is the only encoding with an official Euro symbol), it was causing problems due to the widespead assumption of Latin1 (where the Euro symbol is placed at &80 – the same as Microsoft have done with their 8859-1 variant Code Page 1252).
It is worth noting that some other European territories looked at (Germany and Spain) use Latin1 and &80 for the location of the Euro.
Should the French territory be modified to do the same thing?
Changelog:
Modified by Rick Murray (539) Sat, March 31 2018 - 16:20:27 GMT
It is also worth noting that Finland and Ireland also need to be updated to reflect their use of the Euro currency, given that both adopted the currency in January 1999 for the initial formal change in 2002. A mere 13 years ago…
Modified by Sprow (202) Mon, April 02 2018 - 07:33:45 GMT
Text pasted from duplicate Ticket #450:
International module should use Latin1 for French keyboard. There is no valid reason today to use Latin9… but a lot of issues with applications and fonts.
InterBody, line 969:
https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/castle/R…
