On Friday 02 December 2005 10:30 pm, Terry Liittschwager wrote: > I need to insert the Euro currency sign in Kmail and Kwrite text. It's > ascii 128 decimal, 80 hexadecimal. In Windows there was a key sequence > that included the decimal number that would produce the desired special > character. Is there such a thing in Linux/KDE? In short, how can I get > the Euro sign. > > I looked through Kwrite's Insert Special Character feature, but couldn't > find the Euro sign (found the British pound currency sign though), but I'm > notorious for looking right at things and not seeing them - old brain > cells, you know. If I could find it in Kwrite, I could copy from Kwrite to > the system clipboard and then paste from the system clipboard into Kmail. > > Hmm, come to think of it I don't know if there is an across applications > system clipboard in KDE. If there is, can anybody suggest a clipboard > manager. > > Thanks in advance, > > Terry Liittschwager
You might try (if you are using KDE) Star->Office->Accessories->Character Map. Open Character Map, then using the drop-down menu in the upper left hand side of the screen (the one to select your font style), scroll down and select "Standard Symbols L". Then select "Common" from the Character Map sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen. At this point, the character table (which comprises the main part of the screen) will display a grid containing various symbols such as dollar signs, punctuation marks, etc. Using your scroll bar, or as I did, the mouse wheel, begin scrolling down through the screens. You will pass varying blocks of characters such as pipes, bars, percent signs, and other critters that I have no idea what they are. You will even pass through areas where no symbols will be present. Do not get discouraged though! These are just blank blocks, you are still scrolling. Ultimately you will come upon more symbols. Slow your scrolling till you come to the Euro sign. It will be in with a group of blocks containing several other currency symbols. Click and hold on the Euro sign and drag it to Text To Copy at the bottom of the screen. Click the Copy button and the symbol will be copied to Klipper. HTH J.D. By the way, you can employ the bold, italic, and font size controls at the top of Character Map's screen to adjust style and size.
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