Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2001 23:01 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > > Gtk apps need EuroSign instead of currency in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/de > > thats my problem, too. Either kde works, or gtk works. > > > > If you set your LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 int /etc/environment and set > > I have now > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > but the xkb/symbols/de problems persists. It _must_ be a bug in X because > it does not even print another char, there simply does not arrive > _anything_. Not even with "xev" a character is printed (when EuroSign is in > that file): KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001, > root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 2566295417, (84,-11), root:(88,413), > state 0x2010, keycode 26 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > This also does not produce anything in xfce (not even the currency sign). > Not even calling a single xterm without wm make AltGR-E do anything with > EuroSign. > The perl code diplays the euro sign just fine (unicode font used, KDE > only). The � (cent sign works just fine, also all umlauts). > > So I guess this is specific to X and the de xkbd symbol and not an KDE bug > (although I do not know what gtk does). Gimp does not work either (it uses > gtk, doesn't it?). > > Who does file this as a bug for X? It clearly is a X bug but I do not know > which package.
RedHat has "EuroSign" in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/de and this works with KDE, gtk, StarOffice, whatever. There must be a sort of trick. I'm looking for this trick - grrrr.. -Cajus
