2 LFS VERSION: Tested on LFS-3.0
3 AUTHOR: Ivo Schaap <ivo@thecourtofeden.org>
4 or <i.schaap@hccnet.nl>
6 SYNOPSIS: How to render euro signs on your lfs box in case you wondered
11 version 1.0 (01/06/2002)
19 2. Get euro's on a virtual console (tty[1-6])
20 3. Get euro's in a xterm.
28 This hint was born while i tryed to search for the euro on my lfs system.
29 It is more simple than i tought it would be. But in some apps i still dont know
30 how to get things done like opera. If you have valuable information you can
31 mail me and i can put it in this hint.
35 2. Get euro's on a virtual console (tty[1-6])
36 =============================================
38 First the keyboard map has to be known.
39 Put this in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
41 LAYOUT=/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/euro1.map.gz
44 Than use a latin 9 character set:
45 vi /etc/sysconfig/font
48 # Begin /etc/sysconfig/font
50 FONTMAP=/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat9u-08.psfu.gz
52 # End /etc/sysconfig/font
56 To let this be your default font, put this at the end in /etc/init.d/loadkeys
59 echo -n "Loading font..."
60 /usr/bin/setfont $FONTMAP 2>/dev/null
65 What you've basicly have done is:
68 setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat9u-08.psfu.gz
71 So open an editor, and test it by pressing <alt gr> e
72 this is the alt key right of the spacebar.
78 Example: ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
80 There suposed to be 8 eurosigns above.
83 And an other trick is to type:
85 to say 'here comes a special char', and than:
88 It gives \224 as one escaped character.
92 echo "This is the \244"
100 3. To get euro's in an xterm.
101 =============================
103 First see what you have that you can use:
105 xlsfonts | grep iso8859-15
107 Than pick one you like and put in .Xdefaults
109 *VT100.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-15
111 and put in .xinitrc before anything else is executed
113 xmodmap -e 'keycode 26 = e E EuroSign'
116 Oke fire up your X and xterm and start an editor and for example vi.
117 I had to push <shift> <alt gr> 4 to get one.
119 or type this on your xterm:
123 And again to test it, here some euro's: ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
131 For all other apps try to let them use a latin 9 (iso8859-15) character set.
135 grep -irn iso8859 /etc/
138 and change iso8859-1 in iso8859-15 ( AND MAKE BACKUPS FIRST !!! )
140 There still a few things unclear to me, like to get them in webpages, so that
141 everyone can see them. The best solution I now use is having a little
142 gif/png/jpg instead so every one can see what currency i mean. The real solution
143 is that you use ;euro& as an escaped html character to render an euro.
144 If you apsolutely dont know what to do any more you can always put EUR before
145 a price and that should be oke too.
147 Opera have let me down, well i think it shal be fixed in the next versions ;)
148 Gvim too altough vi is working properly.
150 And then there is the issue that some people want to use there own language.
151 So as Marco Rinck (marco@romulus23.de) states in his email,
153 http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2001/12/0472.html
156 > First of all: the normal console. I have the following set in my
159 LC_ALL = de_DE.ISO-8859-15
160 LC_CTYPE = de_DE.ISO-8859-15
161 RC_LANG = de_DE.ISO-8859-15
163 export LC_ALL LC_CTYPE RC_LANG
165 > Of course thats for germany. The "de_DE" you have to change to your
166 > local settings. Now the only you must do is to set a default font wich
167 > contains the euro. The preinstalled font lat0-16.psfu.gz should suit
168 > your needs. Look in the LFS book how to set it as default. After this
169 > I had no problems with euro on console. I had to press "Alt-GR" (the
170 > key right of space) and E and it worked.
173 Well you are free to do that but personaly dont like responses in dutch from my
176 To get realy into the locale things here are some things that might get you running
179 give all availeble locales
182 give all availeble charmaps
193 To close this hint i like to say that you are free to ask me how to do stuff and
194 if you have any usefull additions i like too put them up here. Thanks goes to
195 everyone that helped me on #lfs.