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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!

Are you using remote clients by any chance?

No, just selected terminal from Fedora UI.

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

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.

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.

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

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!