Re: Can't type queries

Hello,

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-14, sughosh ganu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So pressing F3 prompts
>> for a command, but typing does not produce any string. Same is the
>> case with other keys like F4 and F5.
>
> IIRC it's a locale setup fuckup. You have to have the encoding
> specified as part of LC_CTYPE for X, e.g. LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.ISO-8859-1,
> and you have to have the locale compiled for libc. (Debian:
> config /etc/locale.gen, generate: locale-gen.)

 The problem was that ion did not recognize the locale on my system
(en_IN). Changing it to en_US.UTF-8 solved the problem. Thanks for the
help.

--
sughosh