How can I get the Euro symbol in my system
I added the eurosymbol with: System-hardware-keybord etc to both E and 4
and should work with Alt-Gr. The symbol does show on the examplescreen.
however I cannot get it to work. on both PC and Dell laptop (both suse 11.1)
Also in Open Office (3.0) it is not in the special symbols.
I have build a little programm (Lazarus) scanning the fonts (CHR(number)) and als there is no eurosymbol to be found. (there is nothing visible above 126 for all fonts)
System: Suse 11.1 with added TTF fonts Arial and Times.
as far as I know the euro should be decimal number 128
In this forum there were no questions about this, am I alone?
I don’t know about OO settings, but it works for me in all applications by enabling the Compose key in System Settings (Languages and Localization I think) then you can enter € as Compose, =, C. Lots of other useful compose sequences are available, e.g. Compose, =, L gives £, Compose, ", o gives ö, etc, etc.
I did not know about = C gives €
But I did know about = e gives €
Let me check for = c : €
And for = E : €
That are allready four of them. Anf I bet that e = gives €, Yeah! That doubles it. Thus keep in your mind the one that is easyist for you.
And it is a keyboard trick, thus the application does not matter. Works in OO as well s in Konsole, …
On 2010-08-08 12:06, fretty wrote:
>
> How can I get the Euro symbol in my system
> I added the eurosymbol with: System-hardware-keybord etc to both E
> and 4
> and should work with Alt-Gr. The symbol does show on the
> examplescreen.
> however I cannot get it to work. on both PC and Dell laptop (both suse
> 11.1)
That will depend on your keyboard handler. You don’t say what you are using.
If you are using an European keyboard, you should get it by default. I have it on my Spanish keyboard.
> Also in Open Office (3.0) it is not in the special symbols.
It will be somewhere, there are hundreds.
> I have build a little programm (Lazarus) scanning the fonts
> (CHR(number)) and als there is no eurosymbol to be found. (there is
> nothing visible above 126 for all fonts)
Which is nothing strange, because you are looking at the ascii encoding.
The euro symbol is not there. I wrote a file ‘p’ with the letters:
u€u
then did an “hexdump -C p” to see how it was encoded, and I saw:
cer@Elessar:~> hexdump -C p
00000000 75 e2 82 ac 75 0a |u…u.|
00000006
It is encoded as three bytes. There is no way you can see that with the traditional chr() function.
cer@Elessar:~> file p
p: UTF-8 Unicode text
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))