Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:22:00 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard Message-ID: <20060226202200.81510.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC30F@mtlex01.connectalk.com>
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--- "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter [mailto:petermatulis@yahoo.ca] > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 > > To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions > > Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard > > > > > > --- "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > > > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter > > > > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:19 > > > > To: freebsd-questions > > > > Subject: setting up french keyboard > > > > > > > > Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output > French > > > > characters? If so, how? > > > > > > You can set the LANG environment variable. For example setting it > to > > > fr_CA.ISO8859-1 will produce French Canadian error messages with > > > ISO8859-1 characters. > > > You can see all the available locales with 'locale -a' command. > > > You might need to change the screen fonts for other languages, but > the > > > default ISO8859-1 set works fine. > > > Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, > others > > > will continue to output English. > > > > Well I changed the LANG variable and my keyboard still outputs > English. > > Ideally I would like to toggle between an English keyboard and a > French > > one. I got one suggestion to use the kbdcontrol command but that too > does > > has no effect. Although when I tried the equivalent method of setting > it > > up in /etc/rc.conf via the keymap variable and rebooted, the console > > (before startx) was affected (the key bindings were still wrong) but > when > > I entered X-windows I was back to where I started. > > > > Try this when X is running: > setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic Hey! This works in my X windows (é, è, ç, à, ê, ï) but my terminal emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to toggle back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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