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Debian Euro HOWTO

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Copyright © 2001, 2002 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña.

This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.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 woody
    • 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)
  • 4.3 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 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 Acknowledgements
• A File definitions for LaTeX
  • A.1 Latin9.def
  • A.2 latin10.def