[Konsole-devel] [Bug 69957] Konsole can't show the Euro symbol (again!)

[Thiago Macieira]

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------- Additional Comments From thiagom at mail.com  2003-12-10 15:27 -------
Sorry, xev is no comparison here. Yes, it shows that it can't find the right symbol in the locale, but that is not the point here.

Thanks to some Qt hacks inside X (I think), KDE applications can see the full range of Unicode characters, even when libX11 doesn't give us the 8-bit representation. What matters is the Unicode keysym above, which correctly points to the Euro symbol (U+20AC).

However, as I explained to uga on IRC, Konsole is special because its screen buffer is created for 8-bit applications. Therefore, symbols that can't be represented by the locale get replaced with a ?.