Gnome-terminal's backslashes look like Ws with a horizontal line through -- how to get a backslash?
Hello!
I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash?
To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
echo ''
in bash, ksh, etc.
Regards, Chip Campbell
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
Hello!
I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash?
To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
echo ''
in bash, ksh, etc.
You might need to post more info. Here on a box-stock fully updated CentOS 5 (haven't booted the new kernel yet)
$ uname -a Linux centos501.homegroannetworking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:36:49 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final)
$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS release 5 (Final) Release: 5 Codename: Final
Using GNOME Terminal 2.16.0, all works as expected.
$ echo \ \ $
Regards, Chip Campbell
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HTH
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:42 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
Hello!
<snip>
To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
echo ''
in bash, ksh, etc.
<snip>
$ echo \ \ $
Hmm, well, I tried what you said:
$ echo '' \ $
Nothing strange there.
mhr
On 09/05/2008, Charles E Campbell Jr charles.e.campbell@nasa.gov wrote:
I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash?
To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
echo ''
in bash, ksh, etc.
Sorry Chip - it must be your own setup, it certainly isn't the Gnome's fault!
Alan.
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
Hello!
I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash?
To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
echo ''
Hi,
I'm no expert with these issues, but you can try comparing your settings to mine. I'm presuming it's a character encoding or font problem.
What does the Terminal->Set Character Encoding menu offer? Mine just has 'Current Locale UTF-8'.
What font is Terminal using? Edit->Profiles->Default/Edit->General, mine has 'Use the system terminal font' checked, and 'monospace|12' in the greyed out font box.
What does the ascii code for the backslash you're typing come out to?
[neek@localhost ~]$ echo '' | od -x 0000000 0a5c 0000002
'man ascii' shows you the normal backslash should be 5c.
Is your locale set up strangely?
[neek@localhost ~]$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:16:23PM -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
Hello!
I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash?
To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
echo ''
in bash, ksh, etc.
Regards, Chip Campbell
I have no idea how to cure it, but it sounds like you may be set for a Korean local,... a w with a horizontal line through it is a "Won" symbol (Korean money).
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