Hi Terry, > I need to insert the Euro currency sign in Kmail and Kwrite text.
Someone has already suggested the Character Map; but if you want to be able to use international characters all the time (including ___), take a look at System | Configuration | KDE | Accessibility, and try Keyboard Layout. Use the front tab to activate it, pick a keyboard type and a layout - 104-key and US English (basic variant) is a good place to start. Then go to the Xkb Options tab and scroll down to Compose Key; check the box "Right Win Key is Compose". Scroll down a bit further to Third Level Choosers and check "Press right Alt key to choose third level". Immediately under that is the section "Add Euro Sign to certain keys" - choose one of these. Then click OK. Now, you should be able to get the Euro sign by pressing Right-Alt and (say) the 5 key. Pressing 5 by itself will still give you 5, pressing Left-Alt-5 does nothing, but Right-Alt-5 should give you ___. Right-Alt will also give you lots of other nice goodies, like (going across the keys): `¡²³¤___¼½¾______¥× äåé®þüúíóö«»¬ áßðfghjkø¶´ æx©vbñµç.¿ And if you hit Shift as well, you get (not all keys do something): ~¹£^÷ ÄÅÉ®ÞÜÚÍÓÖ«»¦ Á§ÐFGHJKØ°" ÆX¢VBÑµÇ To get some of the other accents, you need to use the Compose key (right-Win). Play around with it and see - and there's documentation for it all in the KDE Helpcenter. If you hate it and want to turn it off, just go back to it and uncheck the box on the first tab. Cheers, -- Trish Fraser, W1S0B 8Q2KH Sun Dec 4 14:57:31 EST 2005 GNU/Linux 1997-2005 #283226 counter.li.org pegasus up 3 hour(s), 54 min, 47 sec kernel 2.6.12-12mdk --
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