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[Patrick <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have a quandry that I am hoping someone here can answer for me.  While 
chatting in KSirc last evening, I started playing with getting my 
"compose" key working so that I could type the special characters, like 
¿, ë, é, ö, 98°, etc.  Well, everything seems to work ok with all the 
special characters except for the Euro sign.  I get displayed while 
typing, a small circle with 4 spikes coming out of it, but it displays 
correctly when being viewed by someone in Europe I might be chatting 
with and also when I view a mail from anyone, including myself in 
kmail.  What I don't understand is why, when I am typing or using any 
of the chat programs that it displays as the circle with spikes?  

I type this ¤ ¤ ¤ and see not a euro, but a spikey little circle!  So 
where does one go now to change the character set group.  I think my 
system is set for iso8859-1, which seems to include the euro, but I am 
guessing that most european users are using the iso8859-15 group which 
is the extended set with the euro.  Someone can explain, yes, no?

Thanks
Patrick
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