Technical data

To enter, display, and print the euro symbol, Worldwide Language Support
(WLS) must be installed on your system, and you must perform the following
steps:
1. Configure the system with supporting locales, keyboard mappings,
and fonts.
2. Use the correct key sequences, codeset converters, and print filters.
This section describes these steps and provides examples of setting locales
and selecting keyboard types.
For more information on using the euro currency symbol, see the Tru64
UNIX Best Practices Web page.
Support for the input, display, and printing of any symbol on the operating
system requires a codeset that includes that symbol and a font set that can
display the symbol. A keyboard mapping that associates keystrokes with the
symbol is also useful, although Compose key and cut-and-paste alternatives
also exist. The requirements of codeset, font set, and entry method apply
whether the symbol is an English language letter, a Chinese language
character, or the euro monetary symbol.
The Unicode (UTF-8) and ISO/IEC 8859–15 (Latin-9) codesets include the
euro symbol. With WLS installed, the operating system provides these
codesets by means of country-specific locales. The operating system also
provides the keyboard mappings specific to each country and the Xfont
library, which enables display of the euro symbol.
To enter and display the euro currency symbol, perform the following steps:
1. Run under a locale that supports the euro currency symbol. Table 1–1
lists the locales that support the euro symbol. To start one of these
locales on your system execute the following steps:
a. From the Options Menu of the CDE login screen, choose Language.
b. From the Language Options Menu, choose a locale.
2. Choose a keyboard map that is appropriate for the selected euro-enabled
locale and for the keyboard type you are using. To choose a keyboard
map execute the following steps:
a. Enter /usr/dt/bin/dxkeyboard at the command line to display
the dxkeyboard Menu.
Alternatively, you can select Keyboard Options from the
Desktop_Apps Menu of the CDE Applications Manager to display
the dxkeyboard Menu.
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