Hi all, More info on the Euro symbol...
> After that, you need to set your locale to something Euro-aware, and you > need to get fonts that contain the Euro symbol. > > Have a look here: > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/index.html So far, I have xterm and tkrat working with the Euro symbol. Here is what you need to do (which should apply in roughly the same lines to other X apps): - general: switch to a euro-enabled locale. The only English locale containing the euro symbol is the Irisch one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do: * dpkg-reconfigure locales; select the [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale (or any other @euro locale) * edit /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc, add: export [EMAIL PROTECTED] - general: get the euro-enabled fonts. Install xfonts-75dpi-transcoded, xfonts-100dpi-transcoded, and xfonts-base-transcoded. - xterm: change the /etc/X11/appdefaults/XTerm file as follows, which replaces the default fonts by their equivalent ISO8859-15 fonts: !*VT100*font: fixed *VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--17-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 *fontMenu*font1*Label: Unreadable *VT100*font1: nil2 *IconFont: nil2 *fontMenu*font2*Label: Tiny !*VT100*font2: 5x7 *VT100*font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-15 *fontMenu*font3*Label: Small !*VT100*font3: 6x10 *VT100*font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medium !*VT100*font4: 7x13 *VT100*font4: 7x13euro *fontMenu*font5*Label: Large !*VT100*font5: 9x15 *VT100*font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-15 *fontMenu*font6*Label: Huge !*VT100*font6: 10x20 *VT100*font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-15 As you can see by looking at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias, 10x20 etc. are shorthand notations for the longer names above, except that mine above are in ISO8859-15 encoding. - tkrat: enable the ISO8859-15 as default text encoding, and change the default fonts to their equivalent ISO8859-15 fonts. xfontsel is your friend; note that you can click on 'select' in xfontsel to copy the current font to the clipboard. Easy pasting ;-) If all goes well, and your system supports the euro sign, you shold see one here: ¤ Good luck :-) Michel PS By the way, the current 'xterm' package of Debian has a nice additional entry in the font menu that uses the current X selection as a font name. Use that with xfontsel's 'select' to test out fonts.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
