I'm experiencing a strange new problem on two of my FreeBSD machines, which must have happened because I upgraded a library or something. Basically the keyboard acts like it's misconfigured when Perl is reading from standard input. The backspace key produces a ^H, and the '(' key backspaces! This does not happen in bash, or in GUI apps. It does occur with at least some other programs that read from stdin, e.g., the cat utility.

Can anyone suggest how to fix this? My only guess is that somehow one of my libraries is convinced that my keyboard layout is Norwegian or something. I've posted on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc about this, but nobody had any suggestions.

TIA!

In reply to backspace works in shell, but not in Perl? by bcrowell2

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