On 7/12/2005, "Mats O Jansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Edd Barrett wrote: >> >> While we are on the subject of keyboards, why is it that shift-3 in uk >> keymap sends a hash-enter instead of a pound sign. > >Well my 3.7-current gives a sterling sign as expected in console. > >Hash sign is hex 0x23 and sterling is 0xa3. Could it be your shell >that doesn't know how to handle 8-bit characters? > >I'm using ksh and has a .kshrc that contains "set +o emacs-usemeta". > >-moj > >> Edd >> >> > >-- >This email has been verified as Virus free >Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net > Hi, First of all the strange line spacing is done by my webmail client (which I'm not happy with atall). I am changing it over soon. Until then I can only apologise. Sorry... I shall try hannahs od-c suggestion. I am also going to try a differnt shell. At the moment I'm using bash-static from the cdrom (3.7). If it is the shell then it's not a huge problem as I can quite easily live with ksh. Thanks for your suggestions. Edd