Debian Euro HOWTO

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Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña.

This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Why euro support?
• 1.2 What is the euro symbol?
• 1.3 Why all this fuss for just one character?
• 1.4 Standards
• 1.5 Is Debian euro-ready?
• 2 Automatic configuration
• 2.1 The language-env package
• 2.2 The euro-support package
• 2.2.1 The euro-test program
• 2.3 The user-euro-XXX packages
• 3 Configuring euro support
• 3.1 Initial considerations
• 3.2 Localisation issues
• 3.2.1 Locales in Debian 3.0
• 3.2.2 Locales in Debian 2.2
• 3.3 Configuring the Console
• 3.3.1 Configuring the console keyboard
• 3.3.2 How the keyboard is loaded in Debian
• 3.3.3 Configuring the console fonts
• 3.4 Configuring the X environment
• 3.4.1 Keyboard configuration
• 3.4.2 Font configuration
• 4 Euro support in applications
• 4.1 Why talk about applications?
• 4.2 Applications with known euro support
• 4.2.1 XTerm and its derivatives
• 4.2.2 GNOME Terminal
• 4.2.3 RXVT and its derivatives
• 4.2.4 Eterm
• 4.2.5 gVim
• 4.2.6 Emacs, XEmacs
• 4.2.7 GNOME and GTK+
• 4.2.8 KDE
• 4.2.9 Apache
• 4.2.10 Mutt
• 4.2.11 LaTeX
• 4.2.12 Kword
• 4.2.13 LyX
• 4.2.14 groff (nroff, troff, grotty)
• 4.2.15 Debiandoc-sgml
• 4.2.16 Tgif
• 4.2.17 Perl
• 4.3 Applications that do not support the euro character
• 5 Frequently Asked Questions
• 5.1 I see a strange character instead of the euro
• 5.2 The euro character gets lost when switching from X to console
• 5.3 How do I see if my keyboard is properly configured?
• 5.4 How do I see if I can represent euros properly?
• 5.5 I'm using framebuffer, can I represent euros on console?
• 5.6 I can input the euro character when running 'euro-test' but this behaviour is lost when X is restarted.
• 5.7 What is the longterm solution for this issue?
• 6 About this document
• 6.1 Why this document?
• 6.2 References
• 6.3 Changelog/History
• 6.4 Pending issues
• 6.5 Acknowledgements
• A File definitions for LaTeX
• A.1 Latin9.def
• A.2 latin10.def

Debian Euro HOWTO