# Keyboard Characters not the same?

**URL:** <https://community.allstarlink.org/t/keyboard-characters-not-the-same/17062>\
**Category:** AllStarLink\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/keyboard-characters-not-the-same/17062 "2020-05-28T19:54:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![oz123colin](https://community.allstarlink.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e36b37/32.png) [@oz123colin](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/oz123colin)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/keyboard-characters-not-the-same/17062/1 "2020-05-28T19:54:45Z")

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Problem - some sudo instructions require charecters from my keyboard and when i press the right key ,Linux changes the character to something else,so my sudo command wont work. Any ideas .???

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**Author:** ![WD6AWP](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/wd6awp/32/5_2.png) [@WD6AWP](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/WD6AWP)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/keyboard-characters-not-the-same/17062/2 "2020-05-29T01:41:20Z")

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See if this post helps with that:

> [@OK...Not showing up in stats, but IAX2 shows registered](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/ok-not-showing-up-in-stats-but-iax2-shows-registered/17009/3):
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> I ran into the double hyphen problem just a couple of days ago. Here’s how to fix it on MacOS [https://www.tjvantoll.com/2015/11/13/em-dash-and-hyphens/](https://www.tjvantoll.com/2015/11/13/em-dash-and-hyphens/) Also, I found that waiting about 5 seconds before typing the second hyphen will work. P.S. I was surprised that I never had run into this before, then realized I recently switched to zsh. Still, it seems weird that would impact cli on remote Linux boxes.

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**Author:** ![eric.fort.listmail](https://community.allstarlink.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@eric.fort.listmail](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/eric.fort.listmail)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/keyboard-characters-not-the-same/17062/3 "2020-05-30T03:35:00Z")

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Sounds like your keymap is not quite correct. Changing the default keymap Varies a little bit depending upon your distro but perhaps someone here can help with that given some info on your install.

Eric

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> > Problem - some sudo instructions require charecters from my keyboard and when i press the right key ,Linux changes the character to something else,so my sudo command wont work. Any ideas .???
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