Pound Sign (#)

[Andy Elston]

Why is it that I cant get a pound sign to show on our UX 11 system. I can acheive it via a terminal emulator but when I exit and login again all pound signs appear as #. This happens even if I save my emulation changes.
Any ideas?

[Alex Glennie]

Not sure but try putting your "changes" in your .profile and running your "terminal emulator" with -ls command option if its dtterm,xterm or hpterm.

If not detail exactly how you get the ? sign and under what enviroment.

I suspect you need to set LANG, Locale etc in .profile and then ensure the correct keyboard mapping is in place and your .profile is being sourced.

[Stefan Farrelly]

You can always get a pound sign to show with;

echo "\0257" from a dtterm
or from a win/nt telnet window;
echo "\0243"

Now, trying to get the shift-3 key working as a pound sign instead of a # is completely dependant on your terminal emulator. You can do it with Win/NT telnet but you will need a particular font - R_ANSI. Its not default and Ive been trying unsuccessfully to obtain it, then when you telnet in you do;
stty cs8 -parenb -ixany -istrip
and now the shift-3 key should work.

[Andreas Garbe]

Hi,
please type this in /etc/profile an you have the Pound Sign and any other Characters

# German umlauts and special characters in HP-UX
#
stty cs8 -istrip

rgds
Andreas