Tupone Alfredo writes:

To make euro key work at console (not X) I had to modify the 
it.map.gz to include euro.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75970

--- data/keymaps/i386/qwerty/it.map.orig	2004-12-29 15:31:59.269844456 -0500
+++ data/keymaps/i386/qwerty/it.map	2004-12-29 15:32:49.049276832 -0500
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 	alt     keycode  15 = Meta_Tab
 keycode  16 = q
 keycode  17 = w
-keycode  18 = e
+keycode  18 = e         E        euro
 keycode  19 = r
 keycode  20 = t
 keycode  21 = y