Well, some further attempts. Jan Elders:
Me:
echo -e "\244" should display the euro sign. Try it to see if the euro sign is present at all in the font which is used.
Hey, it doesn't. How / where should I check and set the correct font ?
Try xlsfonts | grep 8859-15 to list all fonts containing the euro sign. (Only applies to X of course.) You do see ten euro signs here?? --> €€€€€€€€€€ And this is what I read in the SDB: ---Support for Euro symbol in KDE--- Start the KDE control center Look & Feel Country & Language and change the value iso-8859-1 to iso-8859-15. Additionally, you may have to change to iso-8859-15 in some applications (e.g. Konqueror) in order to use the Euro symbol there. You're using KMail I see. Make sure that you've set the used fonts to iso-8859-15 here as well. (However... it's advisable not to use the euro sign in an e-mail if the receiver is a Microsnot user. They badly adhere to standards... you could use EUR instead, which is officially recognized.) (BTW... when using a Microsnot font, the euro sign could be displayed by echo -e "\200" .)
BTW : I'm back to RC_LANG="en_US", but according to somebody from Belgium who reacted also, he did have the Euro sign while having en_US. I'm getting pretty confused by all this.
I have RC_LANG="en_IE@euro". LC_ALL is not set, i.e. echo $LC_ALL gives nothing.
my 'Pause' key has keycode 110, so I have this in ~/.Xmodmap: keycode 110 = Multi_key The Pause key, followed by C and = gives the euro sign.
Well, thanks, but this also doesn't work for me. ;-( I did set keycode 110 = Multi_key but just nothing happens, when I type pause-key C = .
You did check, using xev, that your keycode for 'Pause' equals 110? If not, substitute. Or, use any other key this way. SH