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<link href="ch-auto-config.en.html#s2.3" rel="section" title="2.3 The user-euro-XXX packages">
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<link href="ch-FAQ.en.html#s5.4" rel="section" title="5.4 How do I see if I can represent euros properly?">
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<link href="ch-FAQ.en.html#s5.5" rel="section" title="5.5 I'm using framebuffer, can I represent euros on console?">
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<link href="ch-FAQ.en.html#s5.6" rel="section" title="5.6 I can input the euro character when running 'euro-test' but this behaviour is lost when X is restarted.">
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<link href="ch-FAQ.en.html#s5.7" rel="section" title="5.7 What is the longterm solution for this issue?">
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<link href="ch-about.en.html#s6.1" rel="section" title="6.1 Why this document?">
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<link href="ch-about.en.html#s-references" rel="section" title="6.2 References">
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<link href="ch-about.en.html#s6.3" rel="section" title="6.3 Changelog/History">
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<link href="ch-auto-config.en.html#s2.2.1" rel="subsection" title="2.2.1 The euro-test program">
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<h1>
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Debian Euro HOWTO (Obsolete Documentation)
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<br>Chapter 5 - Frequently Asked Questions
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</h1>
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<h2><a name="s5.1"></a>5.1 I see a strange character instead of the euro</h2>
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If you are seeing a character that seems to be a circle with four lines
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streching out of it (the international symbol for currency) and not the euro
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symbol then the font you are using does not properly represent euros but your
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keyboard is sending it properly. Please check your environment/applications in
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order to see that you are using ISO-8859-15 fonts and not ISO-8859-1.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="s5.2"></a>5.2 The euro character gets lost when switching from X to console</h2>
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FIX: Run (as superuser) <samp>/etc/init.d/console-screen reload</samp> (if
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<code>console-tools</code> is installed), or run <samp>setfont -u</samp> (if
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<code>kbd</code> is installed).
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</p>
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REASON: There are fonts with an unicode map in the .psf file and others that do
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not include it. If these last ones are used the Linux kernel unicode map
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resets and when you return from an X virtual terminal the map is garbled. The
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Keyboard and Console HOWTO (available at
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<code>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.txt.gz</code> if
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you have the <code>doc-linux</code> package) elaborates a little bit on this.
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<h2><a name="s5.3"></a>5.3 How do I see if my keyboard is properly configured?</h2>
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<p>
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(Console terminal) You should see 'currency' when doing:
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<pre>
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$ dumpkeys |grep -i currency
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</pre>
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(X graphic environment) You should see 'currency' when doing:
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ xmodmap -pke | grep -i EuroSign
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</pre>
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<h2><a name="s5.4"></a>5.4 How do I see if I can represent euros properly?</h2>
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If using ISO-8859-15:
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ printf "\xa4\n"
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</pre>
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If using UTF-8:
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ printf "\xe2\x82\xac\n"
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</pre>
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<p>
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Of course, you can also see if the characters euro and cent are represented
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correctly by taking a look at a document that includes them.
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<code>euro-support</code> includes a representation of these in
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<code>/usr/share/doc/euro-support/examples/characters</code>, just
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<samp>cat</samp> the file and see if they get printed to the screen correctly.
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<h2><a name="s5.5"></a>5.5 I'm using framebuffer, can I represent euros on console?</h2>
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Yes you can, (from the <code><a
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href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html#toc15">FrameBuffer-HOWTO</a></code>)
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you just need to use the kbd package version 0.99 or later.
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</p>
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<hr>
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<h2><a name="s5.6"></a>5.6 I can input the euro character when running 'euro-test' but this behaviour is lost when X is restarted.</h2>
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<p>
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The <code>euro-test</code> program will input the proper keycodes to input the
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euro character using <code>xmodmap</code>. If you are able to use the keyboard
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combination to input the Euro character after using the program but cannot do
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it once you restart the X server, then the problem is that your default
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keyboard definitions are not properly setup.
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In Debian woody 3.0 (which provides <code>xfree86-common</code> version
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4.1.0-16) most xkb layouts include the Euro sign [<a
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href="footnotes.en.html#f1" name="fr1">1</a>] but if you suffer this issue then
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file a <code><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">wishlist bug</a></code> against
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the <code>xlibs</code> package.
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<h2><a name="s5.7"></a>5.7 What is the longterm solution for this issue?</h2>
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Move towards UTF-8 encoding and separation of localisation and representation
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(no more XX_XX.ISO-8859-X).
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version 1.2, june 4th 2003.<br>
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<br>
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Javier Fern<72>ndez-Sanguino Pe<50>a <code><a href="mailto:jfs@computer.org">jfs@computer.org</a></code><br>
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