Unable to input certain characters

[jernejs]

I'm using Slovenian keyboard layout, and there are problems inputting characters that require AltGr (this includes , |, {, }, [, ]). Sometimes the character appears properly, other the terminal just beeps.

[trapframe]

same thing with a french keyboard

[christoh]

same with german keyboard AltGr (right alt key) doesn't work

[alorle]

In Spanish, in addition to these symbols (eg '|'), you can not put accent marks

[patryk9200]

I think the problem is with ubuntu keyboard layout. Did you tried change that?
Probably something like this will help-
in bash type & install:

apt-get install console-common
Then you need reconfigure keyboard layout.
Try reboot PC.
There is many problems with this, I tried many methods, most of them don't work.

[paulomorgado]

The same happens with the portuguese layout.

But it's strange because, usually, **Alt _+ ( _Num6, **Num4 _) is a good replacement for _AltGr+2 to get @, but not in this case.

[ebaratte]

Same problem here with a French layout (azerty). I noticed that when bash is run from ConEmu, special characters are input correctly. Though arrow keys don't work anymore :(

[Ordspilleren]

Same issue with Danish keyboard layouts. I think this is an issue with the newly improved Windows Console Host, it only seems to support US layouts for now. Additionally, using an alternative console like ConEmu doesn't seem to work either (specifically arrow keys, del, ins, home etc.), presumably since bash.exe depends on some of those console host improvements.

[ebaratte]

Some kind of workaround: I noticed that pressing AltGr + 5 (that is [ on my french keyboard) then the desired combination (eg. AltGr + 6 for |) will input the character correctly. A bit tedious, though.

[jernejs]

I think this is an issue with the newly improved Windows Console Host, it only seems to support US layouts for now.

I haven't noticed any such problems in cmd.

[paulomorgado]

Nor the PowerShell console. It's only on the bash console.

[mobluse]

This laptop has Swedish keyboard. It's only when using Bash I have this problem not Cmd, that AltGr doesn't work for typing @£${[]}~|. Swedish characters also doesn't work åäöÅÄÖ even though they don't use AltGr.

I tried this but it didn't work:

root@localhost:~# locale-gen sv_SE.UTF-8
Generating locales...
  sv_SE.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
root@localhost:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  sv_SE.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
root@localhost:~# dpkg-reconfigure console-data
Looking for keymap to install:
se-latin1
Deferring virtual terminal setup until console accessible.
root@localhost:~# dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
plymouth: ply-command-parser.c:939: ply_command_parser_parse_arguments: Assertion `loop != ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.3) ...

An idea is to have some script similar to raspi-config to configure keyboard etc, since normally in Ubuntu this is done using GUI tools, see https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspi-config/blob/master/raspi-config

[boulund]

I'm on a desktop with Swedish keyboard, experiencing the same issues as other people in this thread.
I noticed however that @ebaratte's solution, typing AltGr+5 allows you to press a subsequent combination (e.g. the pipe character; reachable on my keyboard as AltGr+< (the key left of Z, to the immediate right of my left shift key).
This solution does not work for producing ÅÄÖ though... Also, when printing left bracket "[", the printed character isn't shown until the next key press (i.e. like thilde "~" or grave accent "`" normally does). Another interesting thing to note is that typing thilde (AltGr+¨, the key top left of Enter, to the right of Å) actually works without typing AltGr+5...