Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4.
> I find this works about 20% of the time.
> It usually works if it is the first character entered.
> But most of the time it does not work - I just get a "4".

Thank you all for your advice, which has taught me a lot.

But I'm ashamed to admit that I found the cause of my problem -
after going back to basics and re-discovering xev and showkey -
lay in a dirty AltGr key on my Thinkpad T60,
which only responded when struck hard in the top right-hand corner.

If it had been any other key (except perhaps for the 2 Windows keys)
I would have noticed; but I don't think I have ever pressed AltGr
except when trying to print the € symbol.

I trust I have managed to cure the fault after lifting the key
and applying compressed air and contact cleaner.

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