Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] £ sign in OpenOffice

[Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:23:08 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 08:28:11 you wrote:
> > On Friday 06 August 2010 21:13:06 Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mick 
<michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I am puzzled by this problem.  One box of mine seems to be
> > > > unable to show the GBP sign in OpenOffice.  In any OOo
> > > > application it shows a capital A with umlauts and then
> > > > shows the £ sign.
> > > >
> > > > In the OOo Language Settings I have selected as Default
> > > > Currency "GBP £ English (UK)" just as I have on two other
> > > > boxen, which work fine.
> > > >
> > > > The locales are the same LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" on all
> > > > of them.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Mick
> > >
> > > No real idea but possibly:
> > >
> > > Different font sets installed?
> > >
> > > Incorrect/different font paths in xorg.config?
> > >
> > > I don't use OO so I cannot speak to it's internal settings.
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Mark
> >
> > I looked at this box again and it transpires that it also has
> > this problem in Kmail, not just OOo.  There don't seem to be
> > any other problems with the characterset or keyboard, only the
> > GBP sign.
>
> Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console.  It is
> the X applications (including terminals) that seem to have the
> problem with the '£' sign.

Why not use xmodmap? Here's a line from my $HOME/.Xmodmap:
	keycode  12 = 3 sterling threesuperior Greek_OMEGA

Evoke using "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap"

Shift+3=£; Shift+AltGr+3=Ω; AltGr+3=³

-- 
Peter
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