[ltp] T21 pipe key

[Richard Neill]

Lars Mai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your answer.
> 
> On 9/13/07, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> It's 1) - there is no key on the keyboard labeled with "|".

That's very strange! Sometimes the key has the vertical bar symbol 
formed with a broken line, rather than a constant line? There's also a 
symbol on the backtick (`) key to the left of "1" that might match.

> 
>> What layout of keyboard do you have? British English? US?
> 
> It's a german keyboard layout. But usually there's one key for "<",">"
> and "|", and that's the key that is missing. So far the only way to
> produce the character was to activate the keypad-function and use
> Alt-<124>. Which only works on the console, not in the terminal..

Are you booting knoppix with the correct lang=XX option?  Alternatively, 
what happens if you boot with lang=en, and just ignore the keycaps?

> 
> Any other ideas, anyone?

echo -e "\0174"
will print the character you want. You could always copy it into the 
clipboard! (man ascii is helpful).


Does AltGr [+ shift] + any-key  help?


Best wishes,

Richard