On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:58:14 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

> > Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console.  It is the X
> > applications (including terminals) that seem to have the problem with the
> > '£' sign.
> 
> I assume you use KDE because you mention KMail. What have you set in KDE’s
> keyboard layout (Personal -> Regional Settings)? (Or if not KDE, then in
> $your_DE’s settingss)

Yes, this box is running KDE.

The regional settings show "United Kingdom".

The only thing that is different to other boxen of mine is that I have not set 
up /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi to define:

<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">uk</merge>

When I set up such a file in /etc/ then I can no longer use the keyboard in 
KDE.  I have to fall back to a console and work from there.
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Regards,
Mick