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

[bill purvis]

On Friday 07 December 2007, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 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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No, I finally tracked it down to the readline config file.
If I do 
  cat >/dev/null
and type in pound signs, they get input OK.

The Ubuntu distro file (/etc/inputrc) has a commented out
line:
# set meta-convert off
Which implies that meta-convert is on. Uncommenting this
line removes the problem, at least as far as terminal input
is concerned. I'm still having a problem with inputting
the character from a file, though. I suspect that I need
to do a bit more experimenting.....

Bill
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