Euro symbol support for countries outside the Euro zone

Support knowledgebase (jkoeke_foreign_euro)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions 7.2 to 7.3

Request

You would like to use the Euro symbol but the local setting for your country does not support it (e.g. in countries outside the Euro zone, like the UK).

Procedure

Start YaST as user root and choose:

Look for the entry 'RC_LANG' with the key F4.
Set this to the local for your country and add the ISO coding e.g. 'de_CH.ISO8859-15'.
Leave the configuration file editor by pressing F10.

Now choose Set the console font. Select the font lat9w-16.psfu.gz (depending on the country you live in, this font might not be appropriate) and exit YaST.

Setting the keyboard layout for X11

In case your keyboard layout (e.g. en_US) does not support the Euro symbol, you can create the file .Xmodmap in your home directory:

  xmodmap -pke  > ~/.Xmodmap

Now you can assign the Euro symbol to any key or key combination. You can find out the keycode by using the command xev. As an example, below you see the output of xev when pressing the key F11:

  KeyPress event, serial 22, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001,
      root 0x2d, subw 0x0, time 1632863623, (6,-10), root:(842,525),
      state 0x10, keycode 95 (keysym 0xffc8, F11), same_screen YES,
      XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""

The key F11 has the keycode 95.

Edit the file ~/.Xmodmap and change the entry for keycode 95 to:

  keycode 95 = EuroSign

See also "XFree86: Changing the keyboard layout in the X Windows environment" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/js_xmodmap.html).

Support for Euro symbol in KDE

Start the KDE control center

and change the value iso-8859-1 to iso-8859-15.

Additionally, you may have to change to iso-8859-15 in some applications (e.g. Konqueror) in order to use the Euro symbol there.


See also:
o Eurosign does not appear after Update to SuSE 7.2

Keywords: EURO, ISO8859-15, SIGN, SYMBOL

Categories: Configuration

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