The Euro key doesn't work when using UTF-8

[Paul van Genderen]

After following this howto: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO/howto.html
And this one: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-about.en.html UTF-8 works fine and I can see Euro symbols, but I cannot type them. This is on an installation without X.

I've installed fonty-rg and dumpkey includes the following line:
keycode 18 = +e +E currency Control_e Control_e Control_e Meta_e Meta_E Meta_Control_e

Alt+E gives a circle with four lines streching out. The rest does nothing.

The default locale is nl_NL.UTF-8, configured with localeconf. "locale charmap" gives UTF-8, plain "locale" says nl_NL.UTF-8 for everything except LC_ALL, which is blank. The keyboard is a plain US104 QWERTY one. I get UTF-8 fonts by running the utf8 script from fonty-rg, which i simply put in /etc/rc.local so it stays. There's no framebuffer enabled in the kernel (no custom kernel, no modified menu.lst, etc)

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the latest release of Ubuntu ?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Any news on this ?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Marco Antonucci (marco-antonucci)]

This bug still exists in Feisty. With the default locale settings (in my case: it_IT.UTF-8) pressing in console ALTGR-E produces a symbol as described in the first report (a circle with four lines streching out). Additionally, the caps lock key doesn't seem to work: pressing it turns on the caps lock led, but writing only produces lower case text. For me, manually changing locale settings to it_IT@euro ISO-8859-15 (by modifying /etc/environment, /etc/default/locale and /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local) solves both these issues.

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

I was looking through some old bugs and came across this one. Things have changed since Ubuntu 6.06, and it's very easy to fix in later releases. The Euro key should be on the '5' key, and can be typed with 'Alt Gr' (right Alt). The only remaining issue is that the default font seems to be "VGA" (at least on i386).

In /etc/default/console-setup, change FONTFACE to "Fixed", then run "sudo setupcon -f".

I'd mark this bug as triaged, as fixing this could presumably be done by adding Euro support to the VGA font or making Fixed the new default font, but I can't select that status(?).