Re: euro and konsole
Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2001 23:01 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
> > Gtk apps need EuroSign instead of currency in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/de
> > thats my problem, too. Either kde works, or gtk works.
> >
> > If you set your LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 int /etc/environment and set
>
> I have now
> LANG=de_DE@euro.ISO-8859-15
>
> but the xkb/symbols/de problems persists. It _must_ be a bug in X because
> it does not even print another char, there simply does not arrive
> _anything_. Not even with "xev" a character is printed (when EuroSign is in
> that file): KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
> root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 2566295417, (84,-11), root:(88,413),
> state 0x2010, keycode 26 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
>
> This also does not produce anything in xfce (not even the currency sign).
> Not even calling a single xterm without wm make AltGR-E do anything with
> EuroSign.
> The perl code diplays the euro sign just fine (unicode font used, KDE
> only). The ¢ (cent sign works just fine, also all umlauts).
>
> So I guess this is specific to X and the de xkbd symbol and not an KDE bug
> (although I do not know what gtk does). Gimp does not work either (it uses
> gtk, doesn't it?).
>
> Who does file this as a bug for X? It clearly is a X bug but I do not know
> which package.
RedHat has "EuroSign" in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/de and this works with KDE,
gtk, StarOffice, whatever. There must be a sort of trick. I'm looking for
this trick - grrrr..
-Cajus
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