Recently, somebody somewhere said: > I could be wrong, So could we all - every time. But at least you were brave enough to have a go. Thanks for that.
> but i think this is a kernel issue, as that's where > support for different char sets comes in. Since you didn't say which > kernel you were running, or where you got that kernel, i'd suggest > building a new kernel and explicitly including support for iso8859-15. That's something I never thought of. From what I read the euro is supposed to work in iso-8859-1, and I know that's it's compiled in. T did get to http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/ and d/l an rpm of fonts, booted drakfont (A Mandrake dodge to avoid you learning anything about where to install fonts) and installed them along with 20,000 windoze fonts I had lying around. I also hacked /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config and added fontpaths, after dutifully executing mkfontdir. But things never work out the way they should :-(. I have a pile of identical fonts, some looking nothing like the original. Take the windoze 'euro' font - has a euro for the 'e' charcter, and no other letters at all. But I get to see 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog" as a sample of that, so something is rotten :-o. I even booted the bloated kde and tried Configuration/KDE/Look'n'Feel/Fonts, and some come through and work, others don't. I can see neep, and neep-alt (The jim knoble euro font types), select them, (As now) but still no euro :-(. The symbol after the word 'euro' below appears as the euro in console mode. I wrote that line in vi, but still can't see it :-/ Here's the euro ¤ from a console. When I wrote that, it showed as a euro. Less it under xterm, and I get that :-o. The cent sign ¢ (Altgr_c) comes out fine :-(. Oh well, the mystery continues. -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius A Slightly Serious(TM) Company Experience is like a comb, that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out! > > --- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, since I got no response to my last query on the euro (Hoping to > > > > piggyback off someone else's knowledge or labour) , I have been > > digging on > > this euro myself > > > > It's actually in the console, as Alt-GR_e. The trick is to use iso > > 8859-15 > > fonts. Alt-gr_e is the standard place for it. I also discovered that > > scroll > > lock gives you the 'compose mode' in linux, which gives me some > > marvellous > > little thingies > > ¹²³¼½¾þø¶æßðjµ¢»« being among them, but no euro. My version of kmail > > has > > fonts iso8859-1 to iso8859-14 available, but no iso8859-15 :-( > > > > X fonts, or unicode fonts, are a problem. There is apparently good > > reason why > > none of the (zero) available characters can be used (!) or none of the > > > > keystrokes that anyone wants are there, so every maintainer has to > > bastardise > > something to get it together - when they get around to it. > > > > The Alt-GR_number system used on windoze is a non runner for some > > other > > technical, interesting, but frustrayting reason, so that rules out the > > > > approach of the windoze cp1252. > > > > What I can't find is a download that gets me to update my fonts here. > > Any idea > > where there's a patch that works? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
