Re: Few problems
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:35:41AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> Keycode 4 in both slink and potato seems to be broken using the uk
> keymap. Instead of printing a sterling sign, it gives a pound sign
> followed by a linefeed. If there is already text on the line, the
> poundsign is places at the beginning, then newline'd. I've tried
> using seperate binary of loadkeys as well as a seperate uk.map (from
> an older distribution which had no such problem) which didn't recitfy
> the problem. Broken termtype?
It's readline in bash that is doing this to you. To fix it put the
following line in your ~/.inputrc:
set convert-meta off
This will allow the extended 8bit character codes from your keyboard
through unharmed. It works just fine here.
HTH,
Ian.
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