Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Encoding for French?

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:25:45PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:08:54AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >   Usually you will need Iso Latin 1, but people start to switch to
> > Iso Latin 15 to get the Euro symbol support. Make sure you have
> >     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> 
> (Of course, in DocBook the euro symbol should be obtained via
> '&euro;'.)

Sure, but I still have to see an ISO-8859-1 character commonly used in
french documents that was suppressed in ISO-8859-15.  For new
documents, ISO-8859-15 is probably the best move.

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