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Cc: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?)
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Le Mardi 6 F=E9vrier 2007 17:51, Pietro Cerutti a =E9crit=A0:
> 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 only 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

Tried it.  No dice.

# kbdcontrol -l fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd

Nope.  My (French) keys beep.  That's all.