Well, since I got no response to my last query on the euro (Hoping to
piggyback off someone else's knowledge or labour) , I have been digging on
this euro myself
It's actually in the console, as Alt-GR_e. The trick is to use iso 8859-15
fonts. Alt-gr_e is the standard place for it. I also discovered that scroll
lock gives you the 'compose mode' in linux, which gives me some marvellous
little thingies
������������j���� being among them, but no euro. My version of kmail has
fonts iso8859-1 to iso8859-14 available, but no iso8859-15 :-(
X fonts, or unicode fonts, are a problem. There is apparently good reason why
none of the (zero) available characters can be used (!) or none of the
keystrokes that anyone wants are there, so every maintainer has to bastardise
something to get it together - when they get around to it.
The Alt-GR_number system used on windoze is a non runner for some other
technical, interesting, but frustrayting reason, so that rules out the
approach of the windoze cp1252.
What I can't find is a download that gets me to update my fonts here. Any idea
where there's a patch that works?
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Success covers a multitude of blunders - G.B. Shaw.
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