[ILUG] The euro: Have I run it down?

[Ronan Waide]

On January 28, declan.moriarty at ntlworld.ie said:
> Was it Waider who wrote on Monday 28 January 2002 16:30:
> 
> >
> > According to the doco, X will ignore XKeysymDB if you're using the XKB
> > extension, in which case EuroSign is the right way to go assuming your
> > locale is sorted out.
> >
> 
> You can take it the locale is my problem. Which doc?? I might even
> read a bit  of it myself, as a last resort.

To set an appropriate locale, go grep in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols for something that has EuroSign, or use
the snippet Colm Buckley put here some time within the last month
(should this be on linux.ie? it's the second time this month the topic
has come up...) and set your locale to en_IE at euro. How you do that
depends on your distro; RedHat conveniently stuffs this sort of thing
into /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

The doco in question would be the xserver doco. Judicious use of man
and grep tends to turn up all manner of useful information. I don't
seem to have the relevant file to hand at the moment, since I nuked
the doco package off the machine once I was done configuring.

Cheers,
Waider.
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