On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Other things to consider: > > What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? > > Using 'showkey' [ in a tty ], find the values for the Backspace and > Del keys - on a regular 102-key keyboard mine are 14 and 111 - then > use 'dumpkeys | less' to find what is output for those keys - mine > are 'Delete' and 'Remove' : for no-latin1 the latter is corrected in > the patch. I _think_ ubuntu has versions of both those commands > (from console-tools), so you could compare them. > > The backspace and delete keys are sufficiently common that the > LEGACY_CHARSET variable (LFS section 7.10) probably doesn't come > into play - but it might be needed to fix up other symbols if you > are using UTF-8 and the keymap is iso-8859-something. > Also, check what you have in /etc/inputrc [ LFS section 7.14 ], particularly the "for linux console" part [ one sequence is for delete-char ], and specifically for mc the section "Configuring MC" on the MC page in BLFS.
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