On Thursday 03 January 2002 11:19, wolfi wrote:
The Euro-Symbol is AltGr-E on the German keyboard, and I heard it would be Ctrl-Alt-E on an American.
Forgot to mention it in the previous emails... I am using SuSE7.3 with a full
install that I have been slowly paring down (taking out the applications i
don't use).
Anyway, on to the Euro thing....
AltGr-E just gives me an e. I can use AltGr with other keys to give me
things like µ, ø etc... (I have the right Alt key set up as AltGr)
I don't have a German keyboard... I have a generic European keyboard
(Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro)... actually bought in the Netherlands. The
keyboard itself appears to have Euro support... like I mentioned in the
original posting, the keyboard has a Euro symbol as the 3rd symbol on the 5
key.
I checked out the SDB, and read it all carefully. I tried it all with a UK
keyboard layout, and it didn't seem to change anything except to remap some
of the other useful keys... things like the @ ended up under AltQ. I changed
it to US, and followed the instructions for setting up a non EU keyboard
layout. Basically, setting the language and keyboard to EN_US, setting up a
local Xmodmap ( xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap ), changing the keycodes around a
bit (keycode 95 = EuroSign for example). My KDE encoding is set to
iso-8859-15 everywhere. I even copy/pasted a Euro into the currency symbol
line in the Country & Language. Still no Euro symbol... just ?'s when I try
the various key combinations ( <AltGr E>,