[ILUG] De Euro

[Declan Moriarty]

Was it John P. Looney who wrote on Friday 04 January 2002 10:00:

>  Don't suppose you know anything about the use & abuse of FPGAs ?

Floppy Gate Arrays?  What do you need to know that isn't in the datasheet?
A lad could go on about that sort of thing for a long time. I'm very good at 
going on for a long time - I'm a Jehovah's Witness ...  Seriously!
>
> > >  Anyway. You need to use an iso-8859-15 font, 
> > Yeah, I read that much and got that far.
>  Good good.
>
> > >  Next, you have to set it up...something like;
> > >
> > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 26 = e E currency'
> > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 54 = c C cent'
> >
> > This gives me '?' (I see O with a circumflex) on Alt-Gr_e, and '¢'  (A
> > circumflex) on Alt-Gr_c. That's under kmail. In a terminal,  In a
> > terminal, I get the cent sign, but the euro comes out like an 'o' with
> > the 4 ends of an 'x' but not the middle.  If I write a euro in console
> > mode, and hexedit the file, it comes out as 0xA4, not 0x26 :-/. Yet, open
> > it with vi and I'll see a capital sized euro sign.
>
>  Weeeird. If you are using the right charset, it should just display. What
> distro are you using ? Ah....the other mail said you were using 3.3.6 -
> did that have euro support ?

I think not. I did find instructions about farting about with xev (A program 
I never found). I believe I have to convince it somehow by defining the euro 
in it's base information, or upgrade. I dread the latter because of library 
problems, breaking compatability, etc.
>
> > The fonts are from jim knoble

>  Hmm....that URL didn't work. 
Sorry... try this one
http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/
>
> > >  should set it up so that pressing Alt-GR and E will give euro, and
> > > Alt-GR and C will give a cent symbol...you should be able to run these
> > > from the ~/.xsession script, which is run when you log in.
> >
> > This thing doesn't use ./xsession, AFAIK, but xtart from Mandrake which
> > gives a menu of window managers. Don't worry though - I'll find somewhere
> > to put it if it does any good :-/.
> >
> > Do I have to tell it anywhere what the euro sign actually looks like? How
> > does it know what to print?
>
>  AFAIK, that's up to the printer...what the euro sign looks like is
> encoded in the font. So, for the screen, it lives in your .ttf file or
> whatever, and for a printer, it's in the firmware, unless you are giving
> it postscript or some such.
>
Oh (expletive deleted)! the printer (groan). I have a BJC4000 from WAY back.
-- 
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	Declan Moriarty




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