Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

[Neal Becker]

Suvayu Ali wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:55:56PM +0100, 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".
>> 
> 
> I am not sure about VIm, but for most apps[1] I use a compose key.
> 
>   setxkbmap -option compose:lwin
> 
> The above allows me to enter the € symbol by typing <Left Windows>e=.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Footnotes:
> 
> [1] Actually everything except Emacs.  Emacs has many input methods of
>     it's own; I prefer a TeX-like input method.
> 

1. How would I have discovered that compose+e = would give a € symbol?

2. It works also in emacs