Bug 57966 - fi-latin1 does not have euro symbol
Summary: fi-latin1 does not have euro symbol
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: console-tools
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
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Reported: 2002-01-03 18:01 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-23 20:41:48 UTC
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Description Pekka Savola 2002-01-03 18:01:20 UTC 
fi-latin1 does not seem to have euro (or the like) symbols.

se-latin1 does (the keyboards are identical), so this appears to be an
oversight.

symptoms on console:

loadkeys se-latin1 and altgr-e produces international currency symbol or
euro
loadkeys fi-latin1 and altgr-e produces a beep
Comment 1 Bert de Bruijn 2002-01-08 02:33:50 UTC 
Can the US qwerty keyboard definitions be extended to include a EuroSign compose
combination ? A lot of europeans use US qwerty keyboards and will be grateful to
have € as compose+"e"+"=" and/or compose+"C"+"=". 
The workaround compose+"x"+"o" for the $ character is pretty awkward.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-29 00:40:32 UTC 
The proper key for this on US international keyboards is AltGr-5.  I have
just added support to X for euro on this key combo for us_intl.  Also
updated is support for gb, hu, pt, tr, and a few others.

This page was helpful: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm
Comment 3 Eido Inoue 2004-08-23 20:41:48 UTC 
multibyte diacritics in utf-8 mode on the console are currently not
supported
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