Had a similar problem last week, but not on a laptop but it may help this may help
dpkg-reconfigure console-data and select the below select from arch list qwerty Us american standard standard On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:56:05 +0100 (BST) Richard Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Someone suggested to try to re-configure locales. Done that and it > didn't work. Still suffering from the same thing. > > Any suggestions anyone ? > > > > Richard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >