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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:51:01 +0100
From:      "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
To:        Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: toggle between english and french (how?)
Message-ID:  <e572718c0702061451t7c8b6455tb71484fd29cfc90f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
References:  <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>

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On 2/6/07, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> 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


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