Redhat linux cannot print euro on console

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 19/04/07, Sudhakar Manukonda <mnsrsudhakar at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Iam trying to compile a simple program to print euro symbol on redhat linux system.
>
>   My system details:
>   GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4, by Roland McGrath et al.
>   Compiled by GNU CC version 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4).
> Compiled on a Linux 2.4.20 system on 2004-12-20.
>
>
>   my c program:
>
>   #include <stdio.h>
> #include <locale.h>
>
> int main() {
> setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
>   printf("%lc", 0x20ac);
>   return 0;
> }
>  (removed additional checks to reduce length of mail)
>
>   [root at hyrlnx01 test]# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./a.out
> Euro sign: Γé¼
>
>   [root at hyrlnx01 test]# LANG=de_DE at euro ./a.out
> Euro sign: ñ
>
>   I have modified the  file /etc/sysconfig/i18n to contain following lines
>      SYSFONT=lat0-16
>    SYSFONTACM=iso15
>
>   But Iam getting the same output.
>
>   Do I need to install any other packages ?
>   Do I need to modify any other configuration files ?
>
>   Please clarify and advise
>
>   Regards
>   Sudhakar

Try setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8, where the UTF-8 is the important part.

Kind regards,

Herta