Euro and gnome-term (was Re: [ILUG] openbsd 3.0)

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:00:36AM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> > the three cd set is ¤45.00.
> 
> grrr... what is the story with gnome-terminal? it just wont use any 
> iso-8859-15 fonts. i've set it to 
> 
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15
> 
> which exists.. cause i used the gnome font selector from within gnome 
> preferences to pick it. but it makes absolutely no difference.
> 
> xterm is perfectly happy with this font...
> 
> incidentally, for console euro support in redhat, edit sysconfig/i18n 
> and put it in:
> 
>    SYSFONT=lat0-16
>    SYSFONTACM=iso15
> 
> (see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/x43.html)
> 
> Finally, how do you get AltGr+e to give ¤ and shift+altgr+e to give ¢
> in XFree? (xkb answer please, not xmodmap :)) i tried chucking in the
> values from /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/de relating to e, E, EuroSign and
> Cent into /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/gb to create a
> /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ie but not much joy. (lots of other key codes
> stop working) :(

 How do I get *any* euro stuff working in X. It used to work. Then I
upgraded to RH7.2 (kept the old home dir) and it stopped.

 No idea why. I have:

keycode 26 = e E currency

 in my .Xmodmap file. When I press altgr+e in xev it prints;

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x5e, subw 0x0, time 2093935945, (84,91), root:(730,378),
    state 0x8, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 characters:  "e"

 What gives ? I'm thinking that somehow my AltGr key has been messed with,
but I've no idea how to prove it...

Kate

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