Release 7.1 contains support for the new Euro currency symbol. It is
based on UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format 8), an implementation
of the ISO 10646 Unicode standard. It is the only standard that
currently defines the Euro and that can display all characters in all locales.
UTF-8 is supported by all UNIX vendors, is the standard for HTML,
and is the proposed IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
standard for internationalizing ftp.
SCO's Euro support provides:
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new locales, including:
cs_CZ.UTF8
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en_IE.UTF8
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fr_LU.UTF8
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no_NO.UTF8
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sl_SI.UTF8
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da_DK.UTF8
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en_US.UTF8
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hr_HR.UTF8
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pl_PL.UTF8
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sv_FI.UTF8
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de_AT.UTF8
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es_ES.UTF8
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hu_HU.UTF8
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pt_PT.UTF8
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sv_SE.UTF8
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de_DE.UTF8
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es_MX.UTF8
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is_IS.UTF8
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ro_RO.UTF8
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tr_TR.UTF8
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el_GR.UTF8
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fi_FI.UTF8
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it_IT.UTF8
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ru_RU.UTF8
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uk_UA.UTF8
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en_CA.UTF8
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fr_BE.UTF8
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nl_BE.UTF8
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se_FI.UTF8
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en_GB.UTF8
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fr_FR.UTF8
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nl_NL.UTF8
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sk_SK.UTF8
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console display of Unicode:
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extended screen driver and font server that understand UTF-8
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updated
pcfont(1M)
command
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one 8x16 font containing MES (Minimum European Subset of Unicode) characters
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keyboard entry of Unicode:
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enhanced keyboard driver capable of generating multibyte characters
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addition to Euro symbol to all keyboard files (30 keyboards)
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updated
mapchan(1M)
and
mapchan(4)
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printing of Unicode:
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enhanced PostScript driver
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PostScript font containing all MES characters
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conversion between UTF-8 and Microsoft encodings
Release 7.1 Euro support does not yet include:
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messages in languages other than English
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alphabets other than Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic
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right-to-left support for Semitic languages (Arabic and Hebrew)
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8-bit support per ISO 8859-15
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Netscape support on UNIX systems
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support for X Server, Motif, and other graphical applications
Any application that is multibyte clean and uses the standard system
interfaces will be able to enter and display the Euro symbol. To use the
Euro, you need only set one of the supported UTF-8 locales in the
form
LANG=xx_YY.UTF8.