Re: [LINUX5250] Euro currency support

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 Dietmar.Buerkle@tsp-gis.de wrote:
>
> there's on more i18n-thing left: Euro currency support.
> IBM created a couple of new codepages (aka CCSIDs) that have an
> Euro currency symbol. If recode suports these, it should be easy
> to add them.

Unfortunately, recode does not appear to support these codepages...


> If not there would be an easy workaround: The new codepages are
> exact copies of old ones except for one symbol. The international
> currency symbol (¤) has been replaced by the Euro currency symbol.
>
> The following table from
>      http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/euro/roadmap.htm
> shows the codepages and the code possition where they differ.
>
> New   Old  Code  Country
> Code  Code Pos.
> Page  Page
> 1140  37   9F    United States, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil,
>                  Australia, New Zealand
> 1141  273  9F    Austria, Germany
> 1142  277  5A    Denmark, Norway
> 1143  278  5A    Finland, Sweden
> 1144  280  9F    Italy
> 1145  284  9F    Spain, Latin America (Spanish)
> 1146  285  9F    United Kingdom
> 1147  297  9F    France
> 1148  500  9F    Belgium, Canada, Switzerland
> 1149  871  9F    Iceland
>
> The URL above also says:
>   Microsoft is adding the euro to the 125x series of code pages. It
>   has been added at 0x80 except for CP 1251 where it was added at 0x88.
>


I could put a workaround in tn5250 for those.... if one of those 114x
codepages is selected, it would make a copy of the pre-euro version, and
just change the one code position...

But, what about the Unix side of things?  Anyone know what the appropriate
code position would be for each of the Unix maps?