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Running localectl status I see that my locale is LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 bla bla bla

I'm trying to pipe ls output to more (ls --help | more) but the when I use the pipe key I get some another character. (Pipe is shift back slash, above the enter key on my US keyboard)

Pipe char on a en-GB keyboard seems to be between the Z and the left shift. The left shift key is 1/2 sized.

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I found this post which got me going: https://rohankapoor.com/2012/04/americanizing-the-raspberry-pi/

I'm assuming this was written from an older version of Raspbian because there's a few differences from what I saw. Regardless, it works and has nice screen shots.

Here's the text cliff notes:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

cursor to your selection (en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 for me) and press space bar to select. Tab to highlight then Enter

Next select default locale (en_US.UTF-8 for me again) 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-reconfiguration

(default "Generic 106-key (Intl) PC for me) Tab to and enter

Next screen is keyboard layout (Selected English (US) )

Next screen is AltGr selection. (I picked No AltGr key )

Next screen is Compose key. (I picked No compose key)

And I'm back at a command prompt 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

First screen geographic area (I picked America)

Next is city or region (I picked New York)

Finally a reboot with 

sudo reboot

Boom, I can type a pipe character !!! |||

Note, you can also access these screens from:

sudo raspi-config

Then pick 4 Localisation options There's a lot of other interesting bits also.

Some have pointed out that this is more than what is needed to get the keyboard locale reconfigured. That is correct but most likely anyone having this issue will need to set these other items as well for a complete solution. If they've already done the other steps then it'll be easy to skip them.

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