[Gllug] Keyboard Oddity

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

Hi Bruce,

>  Which locale do you have set?

en_US.UTF-8

> Does this problem occur in xterms, in web
>  forms in a graphical browser like firefox, in any random GUI program you
>  can find that has text entry...

Yes - exactly so - any programming running under X that accepts text.

> at the console (i.e. not in X)?

No - it behaves normally at the console.

>  This sounds as if you may have a problem with UTF-8 and your font
>  settings or with a particular programme that doesn't handle UTF-8.  In
>  UTF-8, some characters will be encoded with one byte, others with two or
>  more.  In any context where the Unicode support/configuration isn't
>  consistent, you can see these multi-byte characters being handled
>  incorrectly, being mistaken for multiple characters with the effect that
>  odd control characters are inserted into the output.

Intriguing.  I not sure what has changed, as this is relatively recent
- last day or two.

S.
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