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.
