Problem with pound signs (=?iso-8859-1?q?=A3?=) in terminal window

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:38 +0000, bill purvis wrote:

> I changed to Ubuntu a few weeks ago and have only just
> noticed a small problem: when I type a pound sign (£)
> in the terminal window it acts a bit like ^C, cancelling
> the input line and displaying a '#' character.

Sounds like your terminal control characters are set wrong.  Do an:

stty -a

and see what the intr (interrupt) character is.

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