Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:14:25 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Darren <darren@dazdaz.org> Cc: FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UK keyboard and missing ? character Message-ID: <20030814171425.GA99268@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <17512609561.20030814141410@dazdaz.org> References: <279159971.20030813132234@dazdaz.org> <20030813142516.GB712@users.munk.nu> <474924531.20030814120605@dazdaz.org> <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org> <20030814123942.GA3558@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <17512609561.20030814141410@dazdaz.org>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:14:10PM +0100, Darren wrote:
> Interesting. I can type £ at the login prompt, but not when I login
> on console or via remotely via ssh.
Yes -- the shell doesn't just accept any character. If you set your
output to go to a file -- eg by:
% cat > foo
then you can easily insert a £ character into the file, and it will
display quite happily. The characters that you can successfully
generate from the keyboard seem to be quite dependent on the
application receiving them: I can type £ into emacs under X (as I just
did), but I can't do likewise with emacs on the console.
> When I do login, all of the other characters do work, except the £
> character.
What -- even ß or þ or ã? I can't even generate those on the console
(and I'm feeling too lazy to go an look up how right now) but they
display well enough when I cat a file containing them.
> I don't know if this is related or not, but when I type :
>
> -bash-2.05b$ export TERM=cons25
> -bash-2.05b$ reset
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: reset: Undefined symbol "_nc_rootname"
> -bash-2.05b$ export TERM=cons25l1
> -bash-2.05b$ reset
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: reset: Undefined symbol "_nc_rootname"
>
> However when I execute "reset" on console it works.
>
> Coming back to the £ issue, is there a problem with 4.8-RELEASE UK keymap?
I don't think so. That character is certainly being generated as
expected by the obvious keystroke.
Cheers,
Matthew
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