Problem with the input of '€' (U+20AC EURO SIGN) with ~/.Xmodmap

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Mike FABIAN: 

 > Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> さんは書きました:
 > 
 > >  >  > So why doesn't this work with ~/.Xmodmap?
 > >  > 
 > >  > Violate the standard, get what you deserve.  The X11 standard for
 > >  > Unicode keysyms explicitly says that they may not be used for keys
 > >  > that already have keysyms.
 > >
 > > We accept this behaviour in 21.5, btw, even for ASCII keysyms.
 > 
 > Strange. Why does changing
 > 
 >     keysym c = c NoSymbol 0x010000a2 currency
 > 
 > to
 > 
 >     keysym c = c NoSymbol cent       currency
 > 
 > in ~/.Xmodmap make the ¢ work then?

As I said, I don’t know why the former syntax doesn’t work for you. It works
for me, and the only possible reason I can think of for it not working is an
old X server that doesn’t support Markus Kuhn’s keysym extensions (proposed
in 1998).

 > > And the keysym EuroSign *is* XK_eurosign.
 > 
 > Isn't it XK_EuroSign?:

Yes, my mistake. 

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