From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 6 22:51:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B6916A401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD3713C428 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so27987nzh for ; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:51:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UflCuC2mvpe9tTwnkZvftYUWQtsVMMjfttnr1nfn+/Yk+OTmA/sMS3RP20jenwhrLWLPy/Ful4Zxnsjb7N07X55aA5hlNOH2F5d+G8O08AuEoyJ+IorerT97e34azqtoqUspYuWBmkLisRIWbD89Kugy5m2zYGKk460g1lqAC5s= Received: by 10.65.122.20 with SMTP id z20mr13853644qbm.1170802261700; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.23.8 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:51:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:51:01 +0100 From: "Pietro Cerutti" To: Peter In-Reply-To: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:51:07 -0000 On 2/6/07, Peter wrote: > I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server (lighttpd) and > a file server (samba). The kicker is that I will need to allow for > French characters (=E9, =E0, =E7, etc). I had such an issue before but o= nly > managed to solve it at the X level (via xorg.conf). Now I need to > solve it at the console level. put a line like this one in your /etc/rc.conf keymap=3D"your_keymap" where your_keymap is one of the filenames in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps, without the ending .kbd (e.g. for my swiss french console I use keymap=3D"swissfrench.iso.acc" > I would also need to toggle back and forth between English and French. man kbdcontrol man kbdmap > > Thanks in advance to any responders, Hope this helps, > PM --=20 Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org