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adax

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Registered: 2006-10-28

Posts: 31

british pound sign problem in KDE (solved)

Hi.
I have a problem with KDE. when i try to type the british pound sign (£) in any kde application, two strange square characters appear instead of the symbol.
the symbol appears fine in non kde applications and in the console.
i have set up the region correctly, and set the keyboard to british.

does anyone know how to make this work correctly?

thanks,
ad.

EDIT:
I managed to solve this one by re-generating my locales.
as root edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment lines that began en_GB then run locale-gen.

yep, i feel like a newbie now.

mpie

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Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: british pound sign problem in KDE (solved)

do you have kde-i18n-en_gb installed?

adax

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Registered: 2006-10-28

Posts: 31

Re: british pound sign problem in KDE (solved)

yep, i have it installed.
i'm going to update to kde 3.5.5 and see if that helps...