Can't insert '€' or 'œ' using xterm and ISO-8859-15

Markand

Markand

Can't insert '€' or 'œ' using xterm and ISO-8859-15

Hello,

On xterm I'm not able to insert these characters 'œ' and '€'. These characters are replaced with '½' and '¤'

Following the ISO description these characters are defined in the ISO-8859-1 and have been replaced by the one I try to do in ISO-8859-15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15 here you can see that ¤ is replaced with € in ISO-8859-15.

The weird thing is that I can enter '€' in dmenu, Terminal or GTK application so it looks like a problem in the input of xterm/urxvt.

My locales are correctly defined :

Code: 
markand@Abricot ~ $ locale
LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
LC_ALL=

What is happening to me?

Cheers
 
ISO8859-15 only says character code so-and-so is presented with image this-or-that.

The problem you seem to have is more related to the keyboard mapping. Pressing a certain key should produce the euro symbol but instead it prints something else?

See if changing your kbdmap(1) helps.
 
SirDice said:
ISO8859-15 only says character code so-and-so is presented with image this-or-that.

The problem you seem to have is more related to the keyboard mapping. Pressing a certain key should produce the euro symbol but instead it prints something else?

See if changing your kbdmap(1) helps.
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The weird thing is that xev detects them as good :

Code: 
KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    root 0x120, subw 0x0, time 1863626, (746,130), root:(748,146),
    state 0x90, keycode 13 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (a4) "€"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (a4) "€"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    root 0x120, subw 0x0, time 1863726, (746,130), root:(748,146),
    state 0x90, keycode 13 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (a4) "€"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

And in the tty it works too ! It seems to be a display problem. I'm guessing why xterm does not put an €.
 
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