euro symbol on konsole screen

[Bob Goodwin]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 16 September 2006 23:01, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>   
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>>> I'm running Fedora-5, with KDE-3.5.4 .
>>>> IIRC, AltGr-e used to produce the euro symbol,
>>>> but if so it no longer does so.
>>>>
>>>> Any advice or suggestions gratefully receive.
>>>>         
>>> AltGr-4 does it on my UK setup.
>>>       
>> I should have mentioned that AltGr-4 just produces a normal 4 on my screen.
>>
>> In fact the only unusual characters produced by AltGr-anything
>> are AltGr-e, which produces a curious looking character
>> like a circle in a square, and AltGr-c which produces a cent sign.
>>
>> I looked at the Euro-Char-Support mini-HOWTO
>> at <www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Euro-Char-Support/index.html>
>> but found this almost - in fact completely - useless.
>>
>> It says, for example,
>> ----------------------------------
>> Check that the file /usr/share/keymaps/include/euro.inc.gz includes lines
>>
>> altgr keycode  18 = currency
>> altgr keycode  46 = cent
>> ----------------------------------
>> whereas I have no directory /usr/share/keymaps/include
>> or indeed any file including euro.inc in its name.
>>
>> Its complete reference to KDE reads:
>> ----------------------------------
>> 5.1. KDE
>>
>> Change the font setting in KControl to ISO-8859-15.
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> Assuming that KControl is the same as the Control Centre
>> I can find nowhere that I could change any font setting to ISO-8859-15.
>>
>> Surely there must be a short and simple article somewhere
>> which explains what to do to get the euro symbol in Fedora?
>> I googled for "Fedora euro symbol" but found nothing useful.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Timothy Murphy
>> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
>> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
>> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>>     
>
> I can't check this out as my Right alt + 4 gives me the € symbol, but someone 
> mentioned going to KDE's control panel > Regional&Accessibility > Keyboard 
> layout, then the "Xkb Options" tab. Maximise it otherwise all the options 
> arn't seen. Someway down the list is a section "3rd level choosers" . It may 
> be worth checking the "Press right Alt key to choose 3rd level" box, and then 
> trying again with "Right Alt + 4, or Right Alt + e.
>
> Nigel.
>
>   
I use the following to get degree and mu symbols
with the two Windows keys at the lower right of
this keyboard:

/usr/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 116=degree'
/usr/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=mu'

and it seems happy with:

/usr/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=EuroSign'

but it produces a blank so obviously I don't have that
symbol available.

Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia