Re: Euro key

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <tgakic@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

În data de 14/09/2001, 09:29:45, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS a scris:
> Nicolas SABOURET <Nicolas.Sabouret@limsi.fr>:
> 
> > I'm sorry if this looks like a newbie's question, but I can't have the
> > Euro key work, and I'd like to understand the mechanism.
> > 
> > In X11, I can make a "cent" (??) with AltGr+c but AltGr+e prints:
> > 	- e on Potato
> > 	- nothing on Woody
> > and AltGr+$ gives me the strange "currency" sign (round inside a cross).
> > How can I fix this ?
> > 
> > In console, if I "loadkeys euro.inc.gz", I can make the cent, but get a
> > square for AltGr+e. Same for Altgr+$ (currency).
> > I suppose this is due to a bad console font. How can I fix this ? Will I
> > see the "euro" sign or the "currency" stuff ?
> 
> It's probably easier to sort out the font before trying to get the key
> map right. If you want to check the font independently of the key map,
> you can print a Euro sign (U+20AC) on a UTF-8 terminal with:
> 
> $ printf "\xe2\x82\xac\n"
> ???
> $ 
> 
> And there you've got one in this e-mail message, too.
> 
> If you're not using a UTF-8 terminal, then presumably you're using an
> ISO-8859-15 terminal, as I don't know of any other charset that has
> the Euro sign. 

ISO-8859-16. Latin9 replace Latin1 and Latin10 (ISO-8859-16) replace
Latin2.

> On an ISO-8859-15 terminal you could use:
> 
> $ printf "\xa4\n"
> 
> The currency sign '¤' is U+00A4, so you can see that the Euro sign
> apparently replaces it in ISO-8859-15.
> 
> Edmund

Ionel