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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:02:23 -0500
From:      Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject:   Re: toggle between english and french (how?)
Message-ID:  <200702071302.23401.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20070207174852.GC7450@kobe.laptop>
References:  <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070207174852.GC7450@kobe.laptop>

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Le Mercredi 7 F=E9vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a =E9crit=A0:
> On 2007-02-06 17:29, 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 (?, ?, ?, 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 $

Yes, I tried

fr.iso.acc.kbd
fr.iso.kbd
fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd

Maybe I need to inform FreeBSD about the layout of my keyboard.  All I=20
get are beeps when I hit the special French accent keys.

PM



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