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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:48:06 +0100
From:      Darren <darren@dazdaz.org>
To:        FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re[2]: UK keyboard and missing ? character
Message-ID:  <17011045582.20030814134806@dazdaz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org>
References:  <279159971.20030813132234@dazdaz.org> <20030813142516.GB712@users.munk.nu> <474924531.20030814120605@dazdaz.org> <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org>

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Hello Scott,

Thursday, August 14, 2003, 12:49:22 PM, you wrote:

SM> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Darren wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Jez,
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately this and many variations don't
>> allow me to use the ? (UK pound) character.  I've spent some more time
>> searching around and hav'nt found a working solution, yet.
>> 
>> Of those UK people with a working ? character, what rc.conf* settings
>> do you use?

SM> The only relevant thing I have is

SM> keymap="uk.iso"

SM> Which seems to work fine.  Is there something strange about the keyboard
SM> itself?

It's a bog standard PS/2 keyboard which works fine under Linux/OpenBSD/XP/2000.

When I type shift-3 on console, for the £ character, it displays :

#<return>

I'm not sure if the <return> is a LR or CR.

I'll experiment with X later, any more suggestions are more than welcome.

-- 
Best regards,
 Darren                            mailto:darren@dazdaz.org




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