How to type an eurosign

How to type an eurosign

[K.-M. Hansche]

Hi there,

I'm looking for the right way to use the eurosign under cygwin. It works
on the "cmd"-Shell, but not after starting Bash or something like that.
After fiddling around with the LC_* and and cygwin environment vars I'm
somehow lost.

Any pointers?

Thanks for your work,

Niki

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RE: How to type an eurosign

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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Meta-Shift-3 for the pound sign (£) and Meta-Ctrl-2 for the euro (€)
work for me on a US keyboard in an xterm, but not in a console (bash)
window.  I'm using cygwin 1.3.12-2 under Win2k and Exceed for the X
server.  I don't get the Euro sign, but that's just an artifact of my
font choice.  I'm getting the right character codes (0xA3 for the pound
and 0x80 for the euro).
	Igor

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, John Vincent wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The pound (£) and the euro (€) work on my (UK) keyboard.
>
> They also work in ordinary windows apps. I have windows
> set up to know I'm in the UK, for spelling, input and output
> local, time format, date format, etc, etc, etc.
>
> I have "CYGWIN=ntsec tty codepage:oem" in my environment,
> I don't know if that makes a difference. Also, I'm using
> Win2k SP2.
>
> That's about everything I can think of to help.
>
> Good Luck.
> /John Vincent.
>
>
>
> >From: "Tony Arnold" <tony.arnold@man.ac.uk>
> >To: "'John Vincent'" <jpv50@hotmail.com>,<klaus-martin.hansche@kvberlin.de>
> >CC: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >Subject: RE: How to type an eurosign
> >Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:50:58 +0100
> >
> > > I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
> > > the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
> > > in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
> > > my .inputrc file
> > >
> > > set convert-meta off
> > > set output-meta on
> > >
> > > I hope it works for you too.
> >
> >It works for me! I use rxvt to run my bash shell and I use the Lucida
> >Console-P font. Ctrl-Alt-4 now exchoes as a euro symbol (ˆ).
> >
> >But I don't get a Pound sign!
> >
> >Regards,
> >Tony.
> >--
> >Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing,
> >University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
> >T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
> >E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold
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RE: How to type an eurosign

[Tony Arnold]

John et al.,

> The pound (£) and the euro (€) work on my (UK) keyboard.
> 
> They also work in ordinary windows apps. I have windows
> set up to know I'm in the UK, for spelling, input and output 
> local, time format, date format, etc, etc, etc.
> 
> I have "CYGWIN=ntsec tty codepage:oem" in my environment,
> I don't know if that makes a difference. Also, I'm using
> Win2k SP2.
> 
> That's about everything I can think of to help.

The problem I had was because I was using the Lucida ConsoleP font. If I
changwed back to Lucida Console then it all worked fine. I use the
Lucida ConsoleP font so that the graphics character work when using
things like midnight commander.

Regards,
Tony.
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RE: How to type an eurosign

[John Vincent]

Hi,

The pound (£) and the euro (€) work on my (UK) keyboard.

They also work in ordinary windows apps. I have windows
set up to know I'm in the UK, for spelling, input and output
local, time format, date format, etc, etc, etc.

I have "CYGWIN=ntsec tty codepage:oem" in my environment,
I don't know if that makes a difference. Also, I'm using
Win2k SP2.

That's about everything I can think of to help.

Good Luck.
/John Vincent.



>From: "Tony Arnold" <tony.arnold@man.ac.uk>
>To: "'John Vincent'" <jpv50@hotmail.com>,<klaus-martin.hansche@kvberlin.de>
>CC: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Subject: RE: How to type an eurosign
>Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:50:58 +0100
>
> > I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
> > the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
> > in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
> > my .inputrc file
> >
> > set convert-meta off
> > set output-meta on
> >
> > I hope it works for you too.
>
>It works for me! I use rxvt to run my bash shell and I use the Lucida
>Console-P font. Ctrl-Alt-4 now exchoes as a euro symbol (ˆ).
>
>But I don't get a Pound sign!
>
>Regards,
>Tony.
>--
>Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing,
>University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
>T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
>E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold




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RE: How to type an eurosign

[Tony Arnold]

> I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
> the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
> in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
> my .inputrc file
> 
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on
> 
> I hope it works for you too.

It works for me! I use rxvt to run my bash shell and I use the Lucida
Console-P font. Ctrl-Alt-4 now exchoes as a euro symbol (€).

But I don't get a Pound sign!

Regards,
Tony.
-- 
Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing,
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold


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Re: How to type an eurosign

[Sven Köhler]

> I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
> the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
> in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
> my .inputrc file
> 
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on
> 
> I hope it works for you too.

it works in rxvt - but now in a native console.


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Re: How to type an eurosign

[Sven Köhler]

> I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
> the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
> in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
> my .inputrc file
> 
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on
> 
> I hope it works for you too.

doesn't work. it even doesn't work in a real DOS-Box.

i think it's a UniCode-Char.



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RE: How to type an eurosign

[John Vincent]

Hi,

I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
my .inputrc file

set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

I hope it works for you too.

/John Vincent.





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