character mapping

[Managed Services]

pound sign (??) is appearing as (#). Anyone know how to rectify this?

[U.SivaKumar_2]

hi,
please give us more details. what terminal you
have set?. Are you using terminal or telnet
access ?.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[John Strang]

Is this happening on all terminals, or just console?

Check file /etc/kbdlang
which gives the character set for the console

It may be that you can edit this file to change US to UK, which may solve the problem.

HTH

John

[Managed Services]

Telnet via dial-up networking, terminal type is vt100. Sorry about the lack of detail on the initial post.

[U.SivaKumar_2]

hi,
Have you tried setting other terminals ?.
ansi or vt220
Are you trying dialup from a windows 98 machine
?. Try getting latest version of hyperterminal
program ( windows second edition ) or try dial
up from a NT workstation.
if you plan for mapping that character. this will give you enough details
#man untic
#man tic


regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

check stty setings:

stty -a


it must show cs8 -istrip


stty cs8 -istrip.

After this try it with vi or ksh; /sbin/sh seems dont work for me neither.

[Managed Services]

Thanks for all the replies but no luck as yet. I've tried different terminal settings, ie. vt220, ansi and I've run stty cs8 -istrip.
The problem exists not just on remote servers where dial-up access is required but on in-house servers also. We have a GUI which is accepting and displaying ?? signs, but when viewed via character sessions appear as #.

[Graham Cameron_1]

Both are correct, I will try to explain...

In 7 bit ascii, the same number is used to represent both ?? and #.
The number is \043 or \x23 or 35.
man ascii will show this.
Different terminals/settings display this according to their configuration, or what font-set you are using.
I Don't have a dumb terminal in front of me but I recall that HP terminals have configurable (US/UK) settings, where UK shows ??, US shows #.
Terminal emulators are also generally configurable, for example on my exceed telnet emulator, if I set NRC set = "ISO United Kingdom", then I see ?? signs. If I set it to "NONE", I see # signs.
Hope this helps

Graham