GBP symbol

[Lee Braiden]

On Sunday 25 September 2005 12:29, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> My pound symbol doesn't work (shift 3), on a british english keyboard -
> I just get the number 3. Is this a configuration error on my part or
> should I report a bug?

Usually, you would get some other keyboard's symbol there, like the # key from 
US keyboards, if it was misconfigured.  As Johnny (ngms27) says, it does 
sound like your shift key is dodgy.  Try the other shift key, if your 
keyboard has two.

Otherwise, open a terminal and run xev (install the xev package, if you need 
to).  Then, press the key combination, and see if the xev output in the 
terminal shows the correct output.  It can be hard to read, and the output 
may be slightly different on your keyboard, but for the keys 3 and shift+3, I 
get:

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 171661519, (282,263), root:(894,286),
    state 0x0, keycode 12 (keysym 0x33, 3), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (33) "3"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (33) "3"
    XFilterEvent returns: False


KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 171662109, (282,263), root:(894,286),
    state 0x1, keycode 12 (keysym 0xa3, sterling), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a3) "£"
    XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a3) "£"
    XFilterEvent returns: False


-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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