From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 17:50:06 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 698B216A405 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:50:06 +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 74D9213C441 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:50:04 +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 l17Hn9PT014068 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:49:32 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l17Hmr9e007623; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:49:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l17Hmrjb007622; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:48:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:48:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Peter Message-ID: <20070207174852.GC7450@kobe.laptop> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.649, 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 17:50:06 -0000 On 2007-02-06 17:29, Peter 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 (?, ?, ?, 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. > > The Handbook has a lot of ideas but it seems focused on a per user > basis instead of on a system level basis. Then again, maybe I just > don't understand what its trying to say. > > I would also need to toggle back and forth between English and French. 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 $