CentOS - May 2008 - Gnome-terminal's backslashes look like Ws with a horizontal line through -- how to get a backslash?

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 '\'

in bash, ksh, etc.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, 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 '\'
> 
> in bash, ksh, etc.
You might need to post more info. Here on a box-stock fully updated
CentOS 5 (haven't booted the new kernel yet)

$ uname -a
Linux centos501.homegroannetworking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5
11:36:49 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 5 (Final)

$ lsb_release -a
LSB
Version:    :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description:    CentOS release 5 (Final)
Release:        5
Codename:       Final

Using GNOME Terminal 2.16.0, all works as expected.

$ echo \\
\
$
> 
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
> <snip sig stuff>
HTH
-- 
Bill

On 09/05/2008, Charles E Campbell Jr <charles.e.campbell at nasa.gov>
wrote:
>
> 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 '\'
>
> in bash, ksh, etc.

Sorry Chip - it must be your own setup, it certainly isn't the Gnome's
fault!

Alan.
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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=

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:16:23PM -0400, 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 '\'
> 
> in bash, ksh, etc.
> 
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
I have no idea how to cure it, but it sounds like  you may be set for a
Korean local,... a w with a horizontal line through it is a "Won"
symbol
(Korean money).
> 
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