Special chars scrambled from win to fedora termi

[DanRol]

New guy here has gotten virtualbox up and running and discovered one of my wordpress plugin problems, but time to ask how do I get my special characters on my keyboard to be seen in Fedora's terminal.

Running VirtualBox-4.2.18-88781-Win.exe, with Fedora-17-x86 on an HP ENVY dv6 laptop.

What I mean by special characters are any keys other that a to z, A to Z, and 0 to 9, that is !@#$%^&*() etc.
I have had to copy and paste minus so I can do "su -", getting out of vi requires copy paste of ":".

It has been more that 10 years since I've deal with unix but this is more of a challenge than I need.

Thanks,
Sorry I so stupid!

[Perryg]

Are you using remote clients by any chance?

[DanRol]

No, just selected terminal from Fedora UI.

Some of the special keys look like Spanish, the keys right of L on keyboard.

[Perryg]

I just tested Fedora 19 text in terminal and TTY and it works as expected.

I know F-17 has passed its EOL but do not know what that would have to do with your issue. Are you sure you have not selected a different keyboard setup in the guest?

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma ... 03177.html

You can try the following to see what the layout is set to now.

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setxkbmap -query | grep layout

[DanRol]

Like Spanish, actually Italian "it".

Tried setxkbmap us. This seems to have locked up the virtual box.

Should have waited for further instuctions! Some people are just beyond help.

[Perryg]

Yup. If you can get it to boot again below is the proper way for Fedora.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fed ... d-x86.html

You might be able to do this in recovery mode.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fed ... emode.html

That said this is way outside the scope of the VirtualBox forum. Seek Fedora support at http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org

[DanRol]

Thanks. Everything was English except the keyboard.
In System Settings, Region Settings, I added the English(US) keyboard under Layout tab and then deleted the Italian.

I'm an happy keyboarder now!