Keyboard text - how get basic encoding? Not US-Intl? "%20" not space. Where change after install? ; jor Ubuntu

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On 07/29/2010 02:09 PM, giovanni_re wrote:
> KUbuntu 10.4 on ~2004 Compaq laptop, using "alternate" installer cd.  In
> the USA, probably a USA build type of laptop keyboard.  This is probably
> the text mode installer from the debian project, used by the Ubuntu
> distro.
> 
> 
> Is there a way, & if so what is it, to change something, on this already
> installed system (ie, without having to do another complete install),
> perhaps the "keyboard" type settings, to eliminate the extra characters
> that are encoded into text, & the extra characters that must be typed to
> get various punctuation?

Perhaps: System|Preferences|Keyboard?
or
$ sudo apt-get install configure-debian
[<http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/configure-debian>]

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