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From: "Tony Arnold" <tony DOT arnold AT man DOT ac DOT uk>
To: "'John Vincent'" <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>, <klaus-martin DOT hansche AT kvberlin DOT de>
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Subject: RE: How to type an eurosign
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:50:58 +0100
Organization: University of Manchester
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> I don't have experience with the euro sign, but I use
> the UK pound sign (on a UK keyboard). To make that work
> in bash, I needed to put the following two lines in
> my .inputrc file
> 
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on
> 
> I hope it works for you too.

It works for me! I use rxvt to run my bash shell and I use the Lucida
Console-P font. Ctrl-Alt-4 now exchoes as a euro symbol (ˆ).

But I don't get a Pound sign!

Regards,
Tony.
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