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Date:      Fri, 1 May 2009 21:12:26 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
To:        PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching - SOLVED
Message-ID:  <200905012112.27709.tijl@ulyssis.org>
In-Reply-To: <49FB3370.8070807@videotron.ca>
References:  <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <200905011717.50896.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49FB3370.8070807@videotron.ca>

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On Friday 01 May 2009 19:37:52 PJ wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> Have you tried running "setxkbmap ca multi"?
> 
> Now, here's the weird stuff - ca multi works in Firefox... but not in
> xterm so, the keyboard has to be set from fluxbox... works fine in
> Inkscape, gnucash, abacus, so the real problem is in xterm - and that
> is totally unimportant as long as good ol' English works it it.

You probably have to set LANG. Try running "setenv LANG en_CA.ISO8859-15".
If you can type accented letters then, you need to add something like
this to ~/.login_conf:

me:\
	:charset=ISO-8859-15:\
	:lang=en_CA.ISO8859-15:



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