On Thursday 19 August 2010 05:01:45 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 schrieb Mick:
> > 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".
> 
> Hm.. either here’s a misunderstanding or you looked at the wrong place
> (because in Regional Settings, there is also a tab with "Region" in its
> name). I meant the active layout in the "Keyboard Layout" tab, where you
> have dozens of countries to chose from and where you can enable/disable
> the display of a flag in the tray area. Did you mean that one?

Ah! Yes, I have 'United Kingdom' in active keyboard layouts too.  It also 
shows keyboard model: Generic 104-key PC and Command: setxkbmap -model pc104 -
layout gb.

I suspect that this problem is related to the fact that I do not have a 
xorg.conf setting to change the keyboard from the default US to UK and I 
cannot set a hal/fdi file in /etc because I lose the keyboard completely in 
kdm and cannot login (the infamous 'Dale' bug ...!)
-- 
Regards,
Mick