Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:22:19AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: >> I want to get the ability to generate the Euro symbol from my keyboard. >> The symbol itself is etched in to the "4" key (on the bottom right). Where? In X or in a VT? >> I found this >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-configure.en.html >> >> which is (a probably somewhat old) howto on adding the symbol. >> >> Apart from the fact that is assumes that you should use 'AltGr e' for the >> symbol (it points to a non existant EU document), I fall at the first >> hurdle, because it suggests running dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales and >> selecting your locale with the @euro after it. >> >> en_GB (being a UK resident) is what I want to set, but there is no @euro >> option available. That does not really matter, even the other @euro locales do make no sense anymore since 2002 (the Euro is the only sensible choice for those countries anyway). Choose an UTF-8 locale or something with latin9 (ISO-8859-15). In X, you then have to adjust your keyboard mapping to use the EuroSign symbol, e.g. with xmodmap. > Cheat - use the Irish keyboard layout. You want 8059-15 anyway. > You _can_ hand hack the keyboard mappings: I seem to recall > that the authors of the Spanish package to hack the Euro onto > Spanish keyboards had details. UTF-8 will also do it. > [Emacs under X displays ¤ as a Euro and alt-gr c as a ¢ but will > also still display $ and £] My emacx-nox in a KDE konsole displays the € just fine. If it displays an ¤ for you, then you must change the font. In an UTF-8 locale, this should not happen at all. With ISO-8859-1(5), ¤ and € have the same byte value. HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org
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