Re: Binding GBP Pound Key

[David Woodfall]

> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 06:31:02PM +0000, David Woodfall wrote:
> > I use a UK keyboard and Shift 3 gives me a £ symbol. I've been binding
> > Shift+numbers but that one gives an error:
> >
> > bind: character, ^x, or (octal) \032 expected.
> >
> > I tried the octal \243 but I keep getting the same error.
> >
> > Any ideas how to fix that so I can use it?
>
> I start screen with the -U option.  I don't know if I have to but it
> mentioned utf-8 in the man page and thought that it might be a good
> idea.
>
> I don't have this problem at all.  I also use a UK keyboard, the £ key
> generates the unicode code 0xa3 which goes straight in as unicode and
> gets displayed as a £ when displayed.  It's working fine even as I
> type this email in emacs inside mutt inside screen.
>
> Michael Grant

Yeah the £ prints just fine, it's when I try to do:

bind £ select 13

That I get the error.

I tried starting with -U and setting defencoding and encoding to UTF-8
but it still gives an error when I try to bind it.

Dave