Euro symbol

From: Peter B. West (pbwest_at_powerup.com.au)
Date: 11/08/03

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    > Subject:
    > Re: accented Spanish characters in Linux
    > From:
    > Kent Borg <kentborg-rhl@borg.org>
    > Date:
    > Thu, 6 Nov 2003 17:33:49 -0500
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    > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:24:00PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote:
    >
    >>If you have a US English Keyboard and you want to typeset those
    >>accented Spanish Characters on your amsn or Licq, how do you do
    >>that?
    >
    >
    > I recently asked about the same question. This is the answer I hit
    > upon: run the command
    >
    > xmodmap -e "keysym Menu = Multi_key"
    >
    > Then use the menu key (has a picture of a menu mid-selection) as a
    > "compose" key. So for an accented "e", press compose+', then press
    > the "e". Try other combination for other characters. (Including yen
    > symbol, US cents symbol, etc.) For inverted question mark and
    > inverted exclamation point compose+? followed by ? or compose-!
    > followed by !.
    >
    > I put the above line in my /etc/bashrc file, after the line that reads
    > "screen)".
    >
    > Good luck,
    >
    > -kb, the Kent who still doesn't know how to do a euro symbol.

    Compose = e

    works for me. Interestingly, Compose e = doesn't, and neither do
    Compose c = or Compose = c, all of which are mentioned in
    /usr/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
    but don't make it into the Compose functionality. Beats me.

    Peter 

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