Re: Euro Support on PPC?
Hi,
Thanks for yor help.
Finally a can use the €uro in my Evolution.
Tnx
MaX
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 11:41, Michel Lanners wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> More info on the Euro symbol...
>
> > After that, you need to set your locale to something Euro-aware, and you
> > need to get fonts that contain the Euro symbol.
> >
> > Have a look here:
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/index.html
>
> So far, I have xterm and tkrat working with the Euro symbol. Here is
> what you need to do (which should apply in roughly the same lines to
> other X apps):
>
> - general: switch to a euro-enabled locale. The only English locale
> containing the euro symbol is the Irisch one: en_IE@euro. Do:
> * dpkg-reconfigure locales; select the en_IE@euro locale (or any other @euro locale)
> * edit /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc, add:
> export LC_ALL=en_IE@euro
>
> - general: get the euro-enabled fonts. Install xfonts-75dpi-transcoded,
> xfonts-100dpi-transcoded, and xfonts-base-transcoded.
>
> - xterm: change the /etc/X11/appdefaults/XTerm file as follows, which
> replaces the default fonts by their equivalent ISO8859-15 fonts:
>
> !*VT100*font: fixed
> *VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--17-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
> *fontMenu*font1*Label: Unreadable
> *VT100*font1: nil2
> *IconFont: nil2
> *fontMenu*font2*Label: Tiny
> !*VT100*font2: 5x7
> *VT100*font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-15
> *fontMenu*font3*Label: Small
> !*VT100*font3: 6x10
> *VT100*font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
> *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medium
> !*VT100*font4: 7x13
> *VT100*font4: 7x13euro
> *fontMenu*font5*Label: Large
> !*VT100*font5: 9x15
> *VT100*font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-15
> *fontMenu*font6*Label: Huge
> !*VT100*font6: 10x20
> *VT100*font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-15
>
> As you can see by looking at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias,
> 10x20 etc. are shorthand notations for the longer names above, except
> that mine above are in ISO8859-15 encoding.
>
> - tkrat: enable the ISO8859-15 as default text encoding, and change the
> default fonts to their equivalent ISO8859-15 fonts. xfontsel is your
> friend; note that you can click on 'select' in xfontsel to copy the
> current font to the clipboard. Easy pasting ;-)
>
> If all goes well, and your system supports the euro sign, you shold see
> one here: ¤
>
> Good luck :-)
>
> Michel
>
> PS By the way, the current 'xterm' package of Debian has a nice
> additional entry in the font menu that uses the current X selection as a
> font name. Use that with xfontsel's 'select' to test out fonts..
>
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