Stefan Boresch wrote: > fact that I don't find the | (pipe) symbol on the SU-8W. > It's just to the left of the enter key along with the single and double quotes and the backslash > what to do. $TERM is xterm which seems fine, and as I said characters > work in the remote session and in remote nano. I have the problems > both on machines which use UTF-8 as the default character set, as well > as on machines still using iso-8859-1. > Try setting $TERM to vt100. If it works for emacs you might want to set $TERM in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or appropriate resource file for the shell you're using on that host. -Gary