I'm on a second-hand macbook pro from 2013, running catalina 10.15.
It has built-in British keyboard layout but since I mostly write in Italian on an external Italian keyboard, I switched the layout to Italian from Sys preferences
> Keyboard
> Input sources
> +
> Italian
.
In documents and browsers I get most of the accented vowels typical of the Italian language as well as the special characters such as pound (#
), tilde (~
) and the different kinds of brackets but in Terminal such characters are not represented correctly (UTF-8 encoding from Terminal's preferences, as I understand).
For example, pressing AltGr key and the à
key doesn't yield #
(as one would expect) in Terminal but ?
. As you may understand the hash (aka pound) is essential in configuration files where it can comment out lines that are not needed. So how do I get the correct encoding/representation bw Terminal, external (lenovo) keyboard and macbook pro?
Any suggestion/workaround that I may try?
EDIT1
in Terminal '~' is apparently obtained with Alt + 5. See picture for result of this key combo:
I get some "arg5" -- what's that now?