[ILUG] De Euro

[kevin lyda]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:01:57PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> and xterm worked fine. (keyboard set to UK - altgr+4)
> 
> gnome-terminal doesnt work though, for some reason altgr+4 maps to the 
> one-quarter symbol rather than ¼.

is that last char before the period supposed to be the euro (¤)?  i see
something that looks like a reversed D with three pixels on the right side
- one at top, one halfway down and one at the bottom.  in fact i see that
exact symbol if i press AltGr-4.  xmodmap says it's onequarter - keysym
0xbc (which means the font i'm using on my gnome term has an odd glyph
for that symbol).  when i press AltGr-e i get currency - keysym 0xa4.

    $ xmodmap -pk | egrep '\((e|4)\)'
    13    0x0034 (4)  0x0024 (dollar)  0x00bc (onequarter)  0x0024 (dollar)	
    26    0x0065 (e)  0x0045 (E)       0x00a4 (currency)	

for future reference everyone i've sent a euro sign to who has a euro
update to their os (windows, mac, linux) has seen the correct character
afaik.

> which is weird. how can different apps have different keyboard 
> mappings???

all the apps i use map AltGr-e to the euro.

kevin

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