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
