Re: [NTLK] euro sign in newtons HWR and on HW keyboard

From: Markus Rasch (m.rasch_at_gmx.net)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 19:31:49 EST


Why don't hack the internal Fonts and add the Euro symbol by deleting another rarely used
symbol. As far as I know there are some Font-Hacks out there, so it should be possible.
The problem is, we can not teach the HWR to recognize the Euro symbol. But we can use the
user dictionary for example to "expand" 'C=' or 'Eur' or what ever you like to the Euro
symbol we just changed in the internal Fonts with our hack.

Markus

----- Original Message -----
From: "doppler" <doppler_at_mac.com>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: [NTLK] € euro sign in newtons HWR and on HW keyboard

>
> dear NTLK list!
>
> one thing that really surprises me is the fact that the euro sign is not so
> discussed in this forum. now that the euro is a fact, it has become as
> important as the $ dollar sign for americans.
>
> paul gyot has earlier released the euro extension, which adds a country,
> "euroland" and defines a currency, euro. this information can be used with
> the currency converter application, but there is still no good way to write
> =E2=82=AC on the newton, either using the HWR or the external kbd. (on the mac,
> shift + 4 is used to accomplish this, replacing the round sign with four
> pegs.)
>
> as i am not a programmer, so i dont have the slightest idea what it takes t=
> o
> add this sign to the ROM or otherwise learn the newton what the euro looks
> like. i assume that the euro sign will require a re-tooling of all the font=
> s
> in the newton as well, but it could be well worth it, if our newtons are to
> be used for years from now. the only person i know of who has changed the
> ROM of the newton successfully is paul guyot, but there might be others as
> well.
>
> i hope there already exists a euro project or that there are developer who
> are interested in this "update". (yvan bemelmans, eelco grimm and others
> are also interested in this issue.)
>
> this request is also posted at
> http://www.imageguild.com/newton/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?
>
> thank you,
>
>
> roman pixell
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