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.
