Nicolas SABOURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm sorry if this looks like a newbie's question, but I can't have the > Euro key work, and I'd like to understand the mechanism. > > In X11, I can make a "cent" (Â) with AltGr+c but AltGr+e prints: > - e on Potato > - nothing on Woody > and AltGr+$ gives me the strange "currency" sign (round inside a cross). > How can I fix this ? > > In console, if I "loadkeys euro.inc.gz", I can make the cent, but get a > square for AltGr+e. Same for Altgr+$ (currency). > I suppose this is due to a bad console font. How can I fix this ? Will I > see the "euro" sign or the "currency" stuff ?
It's probably easier to sort out the font before trying to get the key map right. If you want to check the font independently of the key map, you can print a Euro sign (U+20AC) on a UTF-8 terminal with: $ printf "\xe2\x82\xac\n" â $ And there you've got one in this e-mail message, too. If you're not using a UTF-8 terminal, then presumably you're using an ISO-8859-15 terminal, as I don't know of any other charset that has the Euro sign. On an ISO-8859-15 terminal you could use: $ printf "\xa4\n" The currency sign 'Â' is U+00A4, so you can see that the Euro sign apparently replaces it in ISO-8859-15. Edmund
