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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:38:35 -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:  <200702080038.35904.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20070207210336.GB9143@kobe.laptop>
References:  <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <200702071302.23401.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070207210336.GB9143@kobe.laptop>

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Le Mercredi 7 F=E9vrier 2007 16:03, Giorgos Keramidas a =E9crit=A0:
> On 2007-02-07 13:02, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit=A0:
> > > 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.=20
> > 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

This is what I get:

LANG=3D
LC_CTYPE=3D"C"
LC_COLLATE=3D"C"
LC_TIME=3D"C"
LC_NUMERIC=3D"C"
LC_MONETARY=3D"C"
LC_MESSAGES=3D"C"
LC_ALL=3D



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