Bug 51170

Summary: Pound sign invisible in gnome-terminal
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: adam.huffman
Component: gnome-coreAssignee: David Mason <dcm>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description adam.huffman 2001-08-08 00:32:39 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The pound sign is not visible when shift-3 is pressed in gnome-terminal,
although the cursor does move one place to the right.
It is visible when the key is pressed in a normal xterm.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login
2. open a gnome-terminal
3. press shift-3
	

Actual Results:  cursor moved one place to the right but with no visible
character

Expected Results:  a pound sign should have been printed

Additional info:

LANG is set to en_GB
Comment 1 David Mason 2001-08-08 14:30:12 UTC 
works on every beta install I can find
Comment 2 adam.huffman 2001-08-08 22:43:24 UTC 
Created attachment 26915 [details]
results of pressing shift-1234567890 x3 in gnome-terminal
Comment 3 adam.huffman 2001-08-08 22:44:54 UTC 
Created attachment 26916 [details]
results of pressing shift-1234567890 x3 in xterm
Comment 4 David Mason 2001-08-09 14:07:40 UTC 
With others looking on in amazement at your screenshots the first thing that
came to mind is that you have a broken keyboard. Does this happen in a virtual
console as well? (CTRL-ALT-F1)
Comment 5 adam.huffman 2001-08-10 00:12:34 UTC 
No, there's no problem on the console or in the seawolf installation on the same
 box.

Just tried changing between runlevels 5 and 3, and there is no such problem
in runlevel 3, so it seems to be caused by gdm.  There are actually some other
problems with my gdm setup on this installation e.g. the aliases, colour ls etc. 
are not being sourced.
Comment 6 Need Real Name 2003-04-27 17:46:49 UTC 
In Red Hat 9:

Typing shift-3 (the British pound sign) in gnome-terminal does not give me a
pound sign - instead I get a strange looking "t" character.

It looks like a line drawing of a t.

When I paste it here I *do* get a pound sign: £
The pound sign appears fine when I use the console.