Getting The Euro Symbol On A U.S. Keyboard

[Garrett Klein]

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My advice would be to use the ascii code... although I know that's probably not what you were looking for. Speaking of obscure characters, is there any way to get accented letters without having to remember ascii codes under Linux?

Garrett

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:26:10PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I'm hoping there's a way for me to generate the Euro symbol from a
> console app (like vim). I would appreciate any and all suggestions,
> including how to test whether it's actualy working. Thanks in advance
> for all suggestions.
> 
> I'm on Fedora Core 4, with U.S. configuration all the way--but it's
> UTF8! I'm hoping there's some magic I can do with perhaps the Alt key
> and three digits on the numeric keypad.
> 
> Frankly, I wonder whether my screen reader will voice the word "euro"
> should I succeed, but I'd settle for being able to generate the char
> reliably.
> 
> Here's my locale output:
> 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> 
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