From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 15:33:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5234D16A42A for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:33:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60023.mail.yahoo.com (web60023.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD64743D48 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:33:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 61055 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Feb 2006 15:33:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ArrvCSVLwQod1Ha4vo0mk8DxmiCGWgal+T89541OGetq/kRU1DxVcdQ8MkoMR5TLrL7Jj+RYWk533OyPu4fEOxUbGfdsbgkg/5Kn5+1KrOggpfO3Z0S195y+KCz+EOi6LTbW5dMITTEWB2rDzigjNhFvUphlTeTkyWBKQau01LY= ; Message-ID: <20060224153357.61053.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.201] by web60023.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:33:57 EST Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:33:57 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: "Webster, Andrew" , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC309@mtlex01.connectalk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard 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: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:33:58 -0000 --- "Webster, Andrew" wrote: > > -----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 > > To: freebsd-questions > > Subject: setting up french keyboard > > > > 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. > Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, others > will continue to output English. Well I changed the LANG variable and my keyboard still outputs English. Ideally I would like to toggle between an English keyboard and a French one. I got one suggestion to use the kbdcontrol command but that too does has no effect. Although when I tried the equivalent method of setting it up in /etc/rc.conf via the keymap variable and rebooted, the console (before startx) was affected (the key bindings were still wrong) but when I entered X-windows I was back to where I started. -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca