Re: The Euro-symbol

igor (igor@bgk.odessa.net)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:35:22 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Pekka Pietik{inen wrote:

> On Nov 17, 6:57pm, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > the 1st of January 1999, the Euro will be an official currency in several
> > > countries in Europe. Therefore, AltGr + E has been assigned as the
> > > standard key to display the Euro-symbol. Will this make it into the v2.2
> >
> > (Not all keymaps - its alt-gr-4 in the UK and alt-gr-5 (afaik) in the USA)
> There's also a problem of the current kbd (atleast the one shipped by
> redhat) package using altgr-e for something else (Hex_E), which needs to be
> sorted out.

There's another problem -- altgr is often used as a switch between
english and another language, in my case it's russian.

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