Re: [Hampshire] Missing pounds

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Author: Chris Aitken
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Missing pounds
Scuse the gmail-mobile top-post.

Isn't UK Unkranian? GB is normally what is needed. ISTR that with UK
set there are no cyrillics, and things almost work, but not enough to
get @ and others in the correct place.
HTH

On 6/29/09, Samuel Penn <sam@???> wrote:
> On Monday 29 June 2009 12:42:31 Jacqui Caren wrote:
>> Samuel Penn wrote:
>> > I've had a problem for a while now with not being able to type
>> > a pound symbol. If I press shift+3, then I get a 3. All the
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong?
>>
>> broken keyboard?
>
> If I drop out of KDE to the console, then things work, so the
> keyboard appears to be okay.
>
>> wrong charset?
>
> Not sure. Country is set to UK in KDE control centre. What
> confuses me is that if charset/country is a problem, then
> I'd expect to get a different special symbol, rather than a 3.
>
> Is there a way to display X11 keyboard events, or some other
> way to monitor what the system (at various levels) thinks
> is being sent by the keyboard?
>
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