[ILUG] Quick question for anyone

[Rick Moen]

begin  John P . Looney quotation:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:16:44PM -0800, Rick Moen mentioned:
>> Meanwhile, ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9) has the Euro at position 164 (A4h).  To
>> quote the Linux kernel documentation, it's "an update to Latin 1 that
>> removes a handful of rarely used characters and instead adds support for
>> Estonian, corrects the support for French and Finnish, and adds the new
>> Euro character."  That's probably your best standards-compliant
>> solution, unless and until we start bandying bad words like "Unicode".
> 
>  But, what do you press in X to get it ?
>  
> Kate, who uses iso-8859-15

I'm not sure.  It may be application-dependent.  You may want to try 
holding down Alt and pressing 164.  Somewhere, I read that you press
"AltGr + E".  Maybe that'll make more sense to you than it does to me.

By the way, the following excerpt from the Belian-HOWTO might also be 
useful:


Support for the Euro symbol

Since Europe had to invent a new character, the Euro, there's a new
standard. It's called ISO-8859-15 (aka Latin-9 or Latin-0). To add
support you need both a
new font and new keymaps. This is part of every major distribution
nowadays, if you have an older distributions you probably need a newer
console-tools
package. 

The changes in the keymap-file consist of the following lines: 

        keycode  18 = +e        +E      currency
        keycode  46 = +c        +C      cent
    
And the following environment-variable should be set: 

        SYSFONT=lat0-16.psf
    
to make sure you're using the right font. 

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