Re: Euro currency symbol; was Re: R: Happy New Year !

From: Clive Wright (clive_wright@telinco.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 21:58:46 CET


Michele Andreoli wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:01:00PM +0000, Clive Wright nicely wrote:
> > >
> > The character is 0x00a4 in the iso-8859-15 charset.
> > For keyboards without a Euro key I think it is usually
> > mapped to "Alt Gr e".
> > I do not know about modifying the keytable though.
>
> Great! Fortunately, the same code hold also for iso-8859-1
> Usimg vi (VIM) it is entered with "control-v 164".
>
> So, in muLinux, putting this row in the file /etc/keys.conf:
>
> altgr keycode 18 = 0x00a4
>
> (18 is the scancode for "e" on the keyboad ) and doing:
>
> # setup keymap store
> # setup keymap
> # setup -s
>
> give us the euro symbol with "altgr e".
>
> Anyway, to be honest, the symbol shown here is a little ugly; it
> look like a sort of Indian fig, a fruit not currently loved in Italy
> (Italians know why :-) -- See note).
>
In case you are becoming sick of Italian figs you could try
installing a console font from:
http://www.clive.telinco.co.uk/mu/hybrid16.gz
it is a cross between mu's default font and lat0-16

Clive

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