| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision v1.0.2 | 2002-04-06 | am |
| Added the info that emacs support is read-only and removed the question about how the support works. | ||
| Revision v1.0.1 | 2002-03-03 | am |
| Cent: added comment that cent is not usually used. More Euro links. Added information on KDE and Gnome. | ||
| Revision v1.0.0 | 2001-09-29 | am |
| Original 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
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 - if it is used - is mapped 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
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.