[LINUX5250] xt5250, x5250, fonts

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now that I've found a Linux distro that will run GUI on my laptop, I 
find myself spending more time away from Windows at work.  I'm using 
Fedora Core 3 with Gnome (2.8 I think).

I started with the tn5250 16.5 RPM since it was included with the distro.

My problem is that I need to be able to see and key the cent sign.

Windows:
-> iSeries Access for Windows, I mapped a key for it.
-> WDSCi, I used Alt-155 to type it (and actually cannot see the symbol 
in the current font I use in WDSCi).

Linux:
-> tn5250 I get a blank space instead of the cent sign.
-> xt5250 I get a dotted square instead of the cent sign.  (Copy/paste 
on that square gives odd results - extra spaces and no ¢ in the file. 
Using the XTerm to map ¢ to a key put the sign on the screen and added 
another character after it.)
-> x5250 I can see the cent sign but cannot type it.  (If I could copy 
and paste, that would be fine, but pasting to x5250 doesn't seem to work 
for me.)

I first thought I just needed a different font, so I tried using font_80 
with various different choices.  None changed my output, so I thought 
maybe that feature wasn't in 16.5 and downloaded current source from 
cvs.  Same result.

The font will change if I specify -font in xt5250 but not from font_80 
in .tn5250rc.

At this point I just want to avoid rebooting into Windows, so I don't 
care which program I get to work for me.  I figure there's probably 
something broken in Fedora since I got the same result on another 
computer with Fedora 1 and used to have it working with an older Red Hat 
release.

So, is there a secret to getting fonts to work?

Any keyboard mapping for x5250?  It doesn't use my XTerm settings.