Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:10:22 -0500 From: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?) Message-ID: <200702062110.22704.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <e572718c0702061451t7c8b6455tb71484fd29cfc90f@mail.gmail.com> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <e572718c0702061451t7c8b6455tb71484fd29cfc90f@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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