Nordic keyboard, special characters cant be used in terminal

Hi, again

I notice that there is more people that are having problem with special characters in the labs. I use a swedish keyboard and running windows with swedish language. I really struggled to get the pipe and tilde symbol in the vm. Not that uncommon, but I also tried switching my language to english instead, and while I got the symbols to work, it is really hard to find all the right keys for tilde, pipe, forward and backward slash, making the labs really hard to complete. I tried to add a second keyboard to the ubuntu, that did not help either.

Any suggestion on how to do this? If I could I would use the clipboard to paste in the commands, but that doesnt work either.

Does your keyboard look like this (more or less)…

I also see the following indicating for Swedish you use …


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1000 years ago I wrote C code on Unix using Windows (Swedish) and a Swedish keyboard, and you use pipe a lot.