Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:45:36 +0200 From: Richard =?utf-8?B?xIxlcGFz?= <rch@richard.eu.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apropos Euro Message-ID: <20020101184535.A83701@richard.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200201011627.g01GR4v08652@meta.lo-res.org> References: <200201011627.g01GR4v08652@meta.lo-res.org>
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On Tue Jan 1 17:27:03 2002 +0100 aaron wrote: >A tought.... > >Yesterday after a very nice new years eve party, I was wondering >if the Euro Symbol (character code 164 on iso-8859-15) was supported. > >Not that it would make much difference. I guess I any everyone else will be >perfectly all right to just spell out "EURO" but I believe it would be a nice >thing to have a pointer to a HOWTO somewhere (especially _now_ :) > >So far, I was able to display the Euro symbol but could not find a way to >convince the console, KDE, emacs or vi to accept it on the keyboard (ALT-Gr E >over here). >Any ideas? > >Sooo... if there is a simple answer I will take a few hours off to write a >short HOWTO. Try 'xev' first. You should see something like this: <..> state 0x1, keycode 94 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 3 characters: "€" I assume you have XFree 4. Look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias & locale.dir. Do you have your libc locale (LANG variable) name there? The charset of cource should have Euro symbol. -- Happy New Year! ☻ Ričardas Čepas ☺ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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