Re: Euro support for KDE/debian potato?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:40:15PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> I followed with some interest the discussion about Euro support under
> KDE. Unfortunately the solution discussed supposes debian testing or
> unstable. I have an up-to-date debian potato box with KDE 2.1.2. and
> XFree 3.3.6. Searching around I found various explanations about how
> to get debian testing or unstable to display/accept the Euro symbol
> but nothing about debian potato.
> 
> Was anybody on this list able to get Euro Symbols onto potato with
> KDE? How would I proceed? Any pointers to something like a Mini-HOWTO?

There is a mini-HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/index.html, or in
the doc-linux-html and doc-linux-text packages in unstable), but it's
incomplete. It contains this sentence:

  Any KDE user out there: please tell me how Euro support can be set up
  in KDE.

If anybody can provide more details, please either mail the author or
file a bug against 'doc-linux'; I'll forward it on to him if you do the
latter.

I suspect that getting the Euro symbol to work properly on potato may be
tricky, as (at least according to the HOWTO quoted above) it's only
supported by glibc 2.2 and above.

> - In other applications under X (all I tried) I can input the Euro
> symbol with AltGr-Shift-4 (the generic currency symbol is
> displayed). Pressing AltGr-e happens nothing.

The mini-HOWTO says:

   If AltGr-e does not work add line
     keycode 26 = e E EuroSign    

   to the file /etc/X11/Xmodmap

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]