[ltp] T21 pipe key

[Richard Neill]

Lars Mai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a friend of mine just got an used IBM T21 Thinkpad. Interestingly, it
> lacks the key for the "<",">" and "|" characters. The former two can
> be produced by using Alt-Shift-X and Alt-Shift-Y, but so far we
> haven't had any luck finding the pipe ("|") character. Which is kind
> of inconvenient for using Knoppix.
> 
> Is there anybody on this list who knows how to produce a pipe on this model?
> 


That's very very odd. The pipe key should be obtained by using 
shift-backslash. Just to check I understand you, are you saying that

1)The keyboard doesn't have a physically printed symbol which is the 
pipe-key

or

2)When you press that key, you don't get the symbol you expect?

What layout of keyboard do you have? British English? US?

My guess is that you are having problems with the keyboard in the wrong 
locale. See: 
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Language,_Locale_&_Keyboard_settings_FAQ

HTH,

Richard