From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 21:04:25 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 60D5C16A401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A006913C471 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:04:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop ([194.30.196.125]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l17L3ole026839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:03:56 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l17L3bsa009300; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:03:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l17L3aT6009299; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:03:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:03:36 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Peter Message-ID: <20070207210336.GB9143@kobe.laptop> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070207174852.GC7450@kobe.laptop> <200702071302.23401.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200702071302.23401.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.653, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.55, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No 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: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:04:25 -0000 On 2007-02-07 13:02, Peter wrote: > Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit : > > Have a look at the keymaps for French in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps': > > > > $ ( cd /usr/share/syscons/keymaps; ls -l *fr* ) > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 9148 Feb 2 15:29 fr.dvorak.acc.kbd > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 7702 Feb 2 15:29 fr.dvorak.kbd > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 8613 Feb 2 15:29 fr.iso.acc.kbd > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 7659 Feb 2 15:29 fr.iso.kbd > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 8715 Feb 2 15:29 fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 7825 Feb 2 15:29 > > swissfrench.cp850.kbd -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 8577 Feb 2 15:29 > > swissfrench.iso.acc.kbd -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 7766 Feb 2 > > 15:29 swissfrench.iso.kbd $ > > Yes, I tried > > fr.iso.acc.kbd > fr.iso.kbd > fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd > > Maybe I need to inform FreeBSD about the layout of my keyboard. All I > get are beeps when I hit the special French accent keys. This usually means that you are typing 8-bit (i.e. French) characters at a shell prompt, but you have not set or configured any locale environment yet, or you have the wrong locale environment. If this is true, and you are hearing the beeps when typing at a shell prompt, then please tell us which shell you are using and what you see by typing: % locale