First off i'm not our i18n person.

cent symbol at console:
altgr+/ altgr+c 

cent symbol at Xwindows:
altgr+r_shift+'

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> John....I get the � by toggling the French keymap on and holding down
> the right-alt while pressing the c key.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> John Aldrich wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > > On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Civileme wrote:
> > >
> > > > John Aldrich wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I asked this in the KDE list and someone said to use the Shift+AltGr
> > > > > key to get special characters (such as the cents sign, etc)
> > > > > Unfortunately, even after discovering that on MY keyboard the AltGr
> > > > > key is the right-alt key, I'm still unable to get it to work. This is
> > > > > supposedly the "compose" key, but nothing happens when I hit that
> > > > > combo plus a couple others (such as "/" and 'c' together which is
> > > > > supposed to allow me to get the cents symbol!)
> > > > > Any ideas??? FWIW, I"m using a true-blue IBM PS/2 keyboard here, a
> > > > > standard 101-key keyboard, with no "Windows" keys or anything like
> > > > > that. :-)
> > > > > Thanks...
> > > > >         John
> > >
> > > Try it without the shift key
> > >
> > Either I get nothing or I get / or I get c. I certainly don't get the
> > high-bit ascii cents symbol. :-(
> > Thanks, though...
> >         John
> �
> 

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