General questions !

[Ingo Klöcker]

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Greg Walker wrote:

> On Friday 17 May 2002 12:59 pm, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 
>> If the euro symbol isn't displayed then either you don't have a font
>> installed which contains the euro symbol or the euro symbol wasn't
>> encoded correctly (some Windows programs seem to assume that
>> everybody uses the Windows encoding by default).
>> This is a euro symbol: €
>>
> 
> I've always had problems getting the euro symbol to work in kde2.2 and
> noe kde3.0 in your message, I can see the euro symbol with no problems
> at all, but I cannot type it into a document.
> 
> Is this related to xmodmap in some way? my keyboard has the symbol,
> but Alt-Gr + 4 gives me this ? (1/4) and not a euro symbol. If I can
> see it, then my fonts must support it right? so is it a keyboard
> problem then?
> 
> 
> what should I try?

It seems that the EuroSign is not defined on the us and the en_US 
keyboard layouts. On the german layout it's bound to AltGr+e.

Apart from using the german layout or some other layout which defines 
the EuroSign (grep EuroSign /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/*) you can 
use the Compose key (which is probably your right windows key) to get 
the € by typing Compose (press and release) + 'e' + '='.

If you are adventurous you can edit e.g. 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/en_US to define the EuroSign, e.g. by 
adding
    key <AD03> {        [         e,    E               ],
                        [  EuroSign                     ]       };
after
xkb_symbols "basic" {
    include "us(basic)"
    include "iso9995-3(basic)"

Regards,
Ingo

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