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 at localhost ~]$ echo '\' | od -x 0000000 0a5c 0000002 'man ascii' shows you the normal backslash should be 5c. Is your locale set up strangely? [neek at 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=