Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:51:00 -0500 From: "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> To: "Peter" <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard Message-ID: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC311@mtlex01.connectalk.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter [mailto:petermatulis@yahoo.ca] > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 15:44 > To: Peter; Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard >=20 >=20 > --- Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: >=20 > > > > --- "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> wrote: > > >=20 > > > > --- "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> wrote: > > > > >=20 > > > > > > Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to outpu= t > > > French > > > > > > characters? If so, how? > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > Try this when X is running: > > > setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic > > > > Hey! This works in my X windows (=C3=A9, =C3=A8, =C3=A7, =C3=A0, =C3= =AA, =C3=AF) but my > > terminal > > emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to tog= gle > > back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? Hmm, looks like you are outputting UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1, or at lea= st your mailer is doing that. UTF-8 is 16bit characters for the accented= characters. Which window manager are you using with X? KDE or Gnome? Both have keyb= oard manipulation tools as part of their packages. Personally I prefer the US International keyboard. This way the characte= rs stay where they belong, but ', ", ^, ~, and ` are dead keys, so if you= type ' followed by a you get =E1. =20 I don't know if there is a quick switch key combination as in windows, bu= t I'm sure there is something that can be setup. > > > > $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic > > $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic >=20 > Hmmm. Looks like my perfectly good French accents in my compose window= do > not end up as such when I read them in my browser. When I reply (what = I'm > doing now) they come back to good characters. Is this normal? Anyways= , I > modified my xorg.conf keyboad section to try to toggle keyboard maps: >=20 > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca" > Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle" > EndSection >=20 > Surprisingly, by simply hitting the Right-Alt key I go from us to ca > although hitting the key again has no effect. Does anyone know how I c= an > toggle without having to issue commands all the time? >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > __________________________________________________________ > Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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