Hi Ralph, yes, if you go directly to .ps or .pdf, € is no problem!
Thanks a lot Grégoire Le dimanche 25 août 2013 à 19:44 +0100, Ralph Corderoy a écrit : > Hi Grégoire, > > > If you use gedit the -k option takes any special signs like > > é,à,è,ö,ü,ç,%,&,æ . It works fine. Only for € I didn't find a solution > > yet. OK, if you don't want to write about money, you have no problem > > :-) > > It sounds as if the X font used by gxditview(1) for troff's font TR > doesn't have the Euro currency symbol. > Certainly, > xfd -fn '-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' > doesn't display it here. > > gxditview has the option to change the font used, but I don't know if > it's possible to find one it would be happy with. Something like this > perhaps, though it doesn't work: > > printf a€b\\n | groff -k -me -X -P-xrm -P'" > TR -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > "' > > I think most of us produce PostScript or PDF and view that rather than > groff's -X. You may have more success with that method. > > Cheers, Ralph.