Penguin
Diff: HowToEuroCharSupport
EditPageHistoryDiffInfoLikePages

Differences between current version and predecessor to the previous major change of HowToEuroCharSupport.

Other diffs: Previous Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History

Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:19:09 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Friday, June 7, 2002 1:06:32 am by perry Revert
@@ -1,175 +1 @@
-Euro Character Support Mini HOWTO  
-!!!Euro Character Support Mini HOWTO  
-!Ari Mäkelä  
-  
-hauva@arska .org  
-  
-  
-__Revision History__Revision v1..22002-04-06Revised by: amAdded the info that emacs support is read-only and removed  
-the question about how the support works.Revision v1..12002-03-03Revised by: amCent: added comment that cent is not usually used. More Euro links.  
-Added information on KDE and Gnome.Revision v1..02001-09-29Revised by: amOriginal release  
-  
-__Abstract__  
-  
-  
-  
-This document describes how to make the Euro character support in  
-GNU/Linux work. Finnish users might be interested to consult the Finnish  
-HOWTO which is written in Finnish.  
-  
-  
-----; __Table of Contents__; 1. Copyright and Thanks; 2. The Euro Character; 3. The Euro and Locales; 4. The Euro and the Console; 5. The Euro in the X Window System: ; 5.1. KDE; 5.2. GTK and Gnome; 6. Emacs; 7. Euro-links  
-!!!1. Copyright and Thanks  
-  
-The document is licensed under ''GNU Free Documentation License  
-'', version 1.1.  
-  
-  
-  
-  
-Thanks for numerous people who gave me advice in Usenet.  
-  
-  
-----  
-!!!2. The Euro Character  
-  
-The new character set, ''ISO-8859-15'' which is also known  
-as ''latin9'' and in order  
-to maximize confusion as ''latin0'', was created to  
-replace ''ISO-8859-1 (latin1)''  
-and it includes the euro character.  
-  
-  
-  
-  
-The Euro is mapped to ''!AltGr-e'' and the cent  
-- if it is used - is mapped  
-to ''!AltGr-Shift-e'' in X and on !AltGr-c on console.  
-  
-  
-  
-  
-The Euro Mini HOWTO was written on a Debian system and the set up  
-works on Debian 3.0 (Debian testing as the time of writing).  
-  
-  
-----  
-!!!3. The Euro and Locales  
-  
-''glibc 2.2'' and newer support the Euro. The correct locale  
-is, for example, ''fi_FI@euro''.  
-  
-  
-----  
-!!!4. The Euro and the Console  
-  
-Check that the file /usr/share/keymaps/include/euro.inc.gz includes lines  
-  
-  
-  
-altgr keycode 18 = currency  
-altgr keycode 46 = cent  
-  
-  
-A console font, which suppports euro, must be loaded. Red Hat uses  
-command setfont and Debian uses command consolechars.  
-  
-  
-  
-  
-In Debian the file /etc/console-tools/config must have ISO-8859-15  
-screen font:  
-  
-  
-  
- SCREEN_FONT=lat0-16  
-  
-  
-In Red Hat the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n must have lines  
-  
-  
-  
- SYSFONT=lat0-16  
-SYSFONTACM=iso15  
-----  
-!!!5. The Euro in the X Window System  
-  
-With default configuration ''!AltGr-e'' (the ''right  
-Alt'' for those who have  
-no !AltGr) produces the generic currency symbol which looks like a four  
-legged spider. When the font of the program is changed to a  
-''ISO-8859-15'' font the currency symbol is replaced by  
-the Euro symbol. In Debian  
-this can be achieved by adding line  
-  
-  
-  
- .XTerm.VT100.font: -jmk-neep alt-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15  
-  
-  
-to the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. The fonts  
-available in distributions and installations vary.  
-  
-  
-  
-  
-If !AltGr-e does not work add line  
-  
-  
-  
- keycode 26 = e E !EuroSign  
-  
-  
-to the file /etc/X11/Xmodmap  
-  
-  
-----  
-!!5.1. KDE  
-  
-Change the font setting in KControl to ISO-8859-15.  
-  
-  
-----  
-!!5.2. GTK and Gnome  
-  
-Change the font setting in Gnome Control Center to ISO-8859-15.  
-  
-  
-  
-  
-A better way of doing this is changing the system wide GTK+ configuration  
-with commands  
-  
-  
-  
-cd /etc/gtk  
-ln -s gtkrc.iso-8859-15 gtkrc  
-----  
-!!!6. Emacs  
-  
-Emacsen 21 and newer have partial euro support. The following elisp  
-should work:  
-  
-  
-  
- (set-face-font  
-'default '"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15")  
-  
-  
-Note that you cannot write Euro characters. You can only see them.  
-  
-  
-----  
-!!!7. Euro-links  
-  
-KWord Euro Page  
-.  
-Debian Euro HOWTO  
-.  
-Euro Character Support mini HOWTO  
-  
-Guylhem Aznar's Euro Pack  
-  
-The README of the Euro Pack  
-  
-Linux Journal on the Euro Pack  
+Describe [HowToEuroCharSupport] here