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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:19
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> Subject: setting up french keyboard
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> Hi.  Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French
> characters?  If so, how?

You can set the LANG environment variable.  For example setting it to
fr_CA.ISO8859-1 will produce French Canadian error messages with
ISO8859-1 characters.
You can see all the available locales with 'locale -a' command.
You might need to change the screen fonts for other languages, but the
default ISO8859-1 set works fine. =20
Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, others
will continue to output English.


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