\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 01445612} \itemau{Gabardo, Jean-Pierre} \itemti{Hilbert spaces of distributions having an orthogonal basis of exponentials.} \itemso{J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 6, No.3, 277-298 (2000).} \itemab One of the main results is a characterization of the Hilbert spaces consisting of distributions supported on $[0,1]$, for which $\{e^{2\pi i mx}\}_{m\in \Bbb Z}$ is a complete orthonormal system. The results are generalized to spectral pairs, and used to generalize Shannon's sampling theorem. \itemrv{Ole Christensen (Lyngby)} \itemcc{} \itemut{band-limited; sampling; spectral pairs} \itemli{doi:10.1007/BF02511156} \end