I wrote:
echo -e "\244" should display the euro sign.
Upon which Jan Elders replied:
Hey, it doesn't.
This seems to indicate the problem.
You do see ten euro signs here?? --> €€€€€€€€€€ Yes I do ! -- nothing to do with marriage I hope ;-) --
Hm, no hidden motives intended. How about copying these euro symbols to Konsole or xterm. Are they visible there? Konsole's charset seems to follow KDE's global settings. KMail: Settings > Configure KMail > Composer > tab Charset, select 'iso-8859-15 (locale)'. If all else fails, you can still do something like this: xmodmap -e 'keycode 96 = EuroSign' so pressing F12 (having keycode 96) yields the euro sign.
How can I set the proper char set ? There is no such thing in the Control Center (3.1.4) under 9.0 anymore !!
Anyone who has SUSE 9.0 who knows the answer?? SH