How to type Euro and Pound on dvorak keyboard layout?

[MartinB]

Hello!

I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can type the euro symbol (€) and British pound symbol (£) when using the dvorak keyboard layout (setxkbmap dvorak)?

Seems like it should be pretty simple, but I can't find any information about this.

With Kind Regards,
MartinB

[Chiitoo]

Teegrins ! !! !

I have not used dvorak, so I can't really say from a personal experience, but I did some searching and could this be of any help?

Getting the FRIKKING euro key working on a Dvorak keyboard layout in Ubuntu 5.04
Posted on September 22, 2005 | 3 Comments

I’ve lost at least 5 hours of my life to the frikking euro key on my Microsoft Natural (old-style) keyboard. It seems that Gnome 2.10 on Ubuntu 5.04, otherwise a great combination, enjoys torturing its Dvorak keyboard layout users with the euro-symbol on the ’5′ key. It simply doesn’t work, no matter what you try.

After sacrificing the prerequisite 5 hours to the Linux gods of Ultimate Non-Usability, I came up with the following solution. Make the following change to your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak file:

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 --- dvorak.ORIG 2005-09-22 11:28:18.704428504 +0200
 +++ dvorak 2005-09-22 11:45:14.296035112 +0200
 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 key  { [ 2, at ] };
 key  { [ 3, numbersign ] };
 key  { [ 4, dollar ] };
 - key  { [ 5, percent ] };
 + key  { [ 5, percent, EuroSign, EuroSign ] };
 key  { [ 6, asciicircum, dead_circumflex, dead_circumflex ]};
 key  { [ 7, ampersand ] };
 key  { [ 8, asterisk ] };

Now make sure that your right-ALT generates ISO_Level3_Shift (also known as AltGr) by using xev. If your font and roughly 8000 other little settings support it, pressing right-alt-5 should make a pretty euro symbol.

It is old, and only about €uro, but perhaps it's a hint towards the right direction at least?

As you say, I agree that it probably should be pretty simple, but I haven't gained enough experience on this area to know (I never really needed to because I didn't have a reason to mess around with it).