Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:03:36 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?) Message-ID: <20070207210336.GB9143@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <200702071302.23401.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070207174852.GC7450@kobe.laptop> <200702071302.23401.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
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On 2007-02-07 13:02, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit :
> > 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
> get are beeps when I hit the special French accent keys.
This usually means that you are typing 8-bit (i.e. French) characters at
a shell prompt, but you have not set or configured any locale environment
yet, or you have the wrong locale environment.
If this is true, and you are hearing the beeps when typing at a shell
prompt, then please tell us which shell you are using and what you see
by typing:
% locale
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