From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 14:53:16 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 ED36316A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from awebster@connectalk.com) Received: from esafe.connectalk.com (esafe.connectalk.com [204.19.165.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B73543D58 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from awebster@connectalk.com) Received: from connectalk.com ([10.125.204.14]) by eSafe SMTP Relay 1140618374; Sat Feb 25 09:53:23 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:53:14 -0500 Message-ID: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC30F@mtlex01.connectalk.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: setting up french keyboard thread-index: AcY5V75aojylv+HwRtuzMDN42gU8nQAwzzPA From: "Webster, Andrew" To: "Peter" , "freebsd-questions" X-ESAFE-STATUS: Mail clean X-ESAFE-DETAILS: Clean 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: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:53:17 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter [mailto:petermatulis@yahoo.ca] > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 > To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard >=20 >=20 > --- "Webster, Andrew" wrote: >=20 > > > -----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. >=20 > 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. >=20 Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic > -- > Peter >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > __________________________________________________________ > Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca