Re: Euro symbol and XFree
On Oct 20, Eric Van Buggenhaut <ericvb@debian.org> wrote:
>Is our favorite OS ready ?
Mostly yes.
>I checked my system and noticed I don't have any support for
>the euro symbol (that I'm aware of) within xterm :
You have to use a font with the correct encoding and characters e.g.:
XTerm.VT100.font: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
xterm -fn -*-neep-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
Sadly, the only X fonts with latin-9 encoding really sucks badly.
There may be better fonts in the xfonts.*transcoded packages, but I'm
not going to install 16 MB of fonts just for this. Maybe the latin-9
fonts should be moved to the default font packages.
>BTW, the euro symbol is absent from the console too ...
Run "consolechars -f lat0-16.psf" and use a locale like it_IT@euro.
(Caveat: this font has an ugly l character.)
(BTW, the german HOWTO is broken. Sourcing /etc/environment from a
script without exporting the variables is useless.)
--
ciao,
Marco
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