Euro Character Support Mini HOWTO
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Revision HistoryRevision v1.0.22002-04-06Revised by: amAdded the info that emacs support is read-only and removed the question about how the support works.Revision v1.0.12002-03-03Revised by: amCent: added comment that cent is not usually used. More Euro links. Added information on KDE and Gnome.Revision v1.0.02001-09-29Revised 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
The document is licensed under GNU Free Documentation License , version 1.1.
Thanks for numerous people who gave me advice in Usenet.
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
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).
glibc 2.2 and newer support the Euro. The correct locale is, for example, fi_FI@euro.
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
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
Change the font setting in KControl to ISO-8859-15.
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
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.
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
No other page links to HowToEuroCharSupport yet.
