[ILUG] key mappings

Declan Moriarty tech.genius at ntlworld.ie
Fri Jan 4 16:51:48 GMT 2002


Was it Stephen Shirley who wrote on Friday 04 January 2002 14:58:
 the fricking euro symbol
> won't work on the console. I just get a white block.
>
> 	ri:~# echo $LANG
> 	en_IE at euro
> 	ri:~# echo $LC_ALL
> 	en_IE at euro
> 	ri:~# echo -n '€' | od -x
> 	0000000 00a4
> 	0000001
> 	ri:~#
>
> where the white block was gotten by typing altgr-4 (although it probably
> won't come out as such in your mail reader - but trust me - it's the
> thing between the ''s). At this stage I'm just thourghly confused. Any
> pointers anyone?

Believe it or not, I see a euro symbol (Something I can't create for love or 
money) where you're giving out about. Are you on ISO 8859-15, and have you 
tried Alt-Gr_e?

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