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:

• an ISO 8859–15 based code set such as en_US.8859–15 or en_UK.8859–15 (shipped with Solaris 7 Operating Environment and compatible versions)

• A UTF-8 code set (commonly used by multilingual users) such as en_US.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8.

Figure 1–6 Euro Currency Symbol

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.

• Unicode Hexadecimal code input method

  To generate the Euro, type the Unicode value for this symbol: U+20AC

• Table Lookup Method

  Activate this method by pressing Compose, followed by Ctrl+I. Select Latin from the list of possible scripts, and choose the Euro from the table of characters.