Re: No EuroSign input in X

[Andre Charbonneau <andrec@xandros.com>]

Somtimes its mostly a font issue.  For example, I have to switch to a 
iso-8859-15 encoded font to be able to see the Euro symbol that I input. 
 The question mark that you see often means that the font does not 
contain the Euro glyph.

Cheers,
Andre.

Tim Dijkstra wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I thought this was a real issue for i18n, if not direct me somewhere else.
> I'm totally lost now. I read the euro-howto but can't get any further. I 
> got it working in a virtual console, but X is still a problem.
> This is what I got so far.
>
> Keyboard configuration:
>     $ xmodmap -pke | grep -i euro
>     keycode  26 = e E EuroSign cent
> So that should be all right... Also when I check what events take place 
> when I enter AltGr-e with xev:
>     KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
>     root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 4284761832, (171,-11), root:(1145,717),
>     state 0x2000, keycode 26 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 1 characters:  "€"
> I get the correct result.
> Also a file with the euro symbol cat-ed to the screen is ok:
>     $ cat /usr/share/doc/euro-support/examples/characters
>     This is an euro
>     €
>     and this is a cent
>     ¢
>
>
> But if I try to input the symbol on the command line of konsole or any 
> other app, I get
>     $ ?
> (that's a question mark....)
>
> Any help would be great!
>
> Tim