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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

Composing Special Characters

Note –

This section applies to users of English language locales only.

Characters such as £ and ¢ are not displayed on all types of keyboard. However, if you are using a code set that supports the character you require, you can use special key compose sequences to insert the required character in a document. For example, to compose the e acute symbol (é), you press the Compose key, followed by the e key, followed by the ' (apostrophe) key.

The commonly used ISO 8859-1, or “ISO Latin-1” code set provides most of the commonly used characters for Western European languages. For a table containing the Compose Key Sequences for ISO 8859-1 see Appendix C, Compose Key Sequences.

Note –

For information on displaying, manipulating and printing text from CTL (Complex Text Layout) locales such as Thai and Hebrew, see Appendix D, Locale Notes.

Euro Currency Symbol

Established code sets such as ISO Latin-1 do not support the Euro symbol: They will not enable you to create the symbol in a document; they will not display the symbol.

To create or display the Euro symbol, you need to be running one of the following:

Figure 1–6 Euro Currency Symbol

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Keyboard Placement

Table 1–1 shows the placement of the Euro on Sun Type 6 keyboards:

Table 1–1 Placement of Euro on Sun Type 6 Keyboards

Type 6 Keyboards 

Euro Placement 

US 

AltGraph+4 

UNIX 

AltGraph-E 

UNIX/Logoless  

AltGraph-E 

French 

AltGraph-E 

Danish 

AltGraph-E 

Italian  

AltGraph-E 

Netherlands/Dutch 

AltGraph-E 

Norwegian  

AltGraph-E 

Portuguese  

AltGraph+E 

Spanish  

AltGraph-E 

Swedish 

AltGraph-E 

Finnish 

AltGraph-E 

Swiss/French  

AltGraph-E 

Swiss/German 

AltGraph-E 

UK (Ireland) 

AltGraph-E 

Keyboard Input in UTF-8 Locales

Two additional methods exist for typing the Euro in UTF-8 locales.