On Tuesday 17 August 2010 23:10:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:23:08 Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 08:28:11 you wrote: > > > On Friday 06 August 2010 21:13:06 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mick > > <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am puzzled by this problem. One box of mine seems to be > > > > > unable to show the GBP sign in OpenOffice. In any OOo > > > > > application it shows a capital A with umlauts and then > > > > > shows the £ sign. > > > > > > > > > > In the OOo Language Settings I have selected as Default > > > > > Currency "GBP £ English (UK)" just as I have on two other > > > > > boxen, which work fine. > > > > > > > > > > The locales are the same LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" on all > > > > > of them. > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > -- > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Mick > > > > > > > > No real idea but possibly: > > > > > > > > Different font sets installed? > > > > > > > > Incorrect/different font paths in xorg.config? > > > > > > > > I don't use OO so I cannot speak to it's internal settings. > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > > > Mark > > > > > > I looked at this box again and it transpires that it also has > > > this problem in Kmail, not just OOo. There don't seem to be > > > any other problems with the characterset or keyboard, only the > > > GBP sign. > > > > Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console. It is > > the X applications (including terminals) that seem to have the > > problem with the '£' sign. > > Why not use xmodmap? Here's a line from my $HOME/.Xmodmap: > keycode 12 = 3 sterling threesuperior Greek_OMEGA > > Evoke using "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" > > Shift+3=£; Shift+AltGr+3=Ω; AltGr+3=³
Thanks Peter, I've tried this and it does not work. :-( -- Regards, Mick
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