From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 04:16:05 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 2787F16A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:16:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60013.mail.yahoo.com (web60013.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3B0B43D46 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:16:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 87274 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Feb 2006 04:16:04 -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=flq375VF4GX2/fO1RsTCJq4WQqJqy+px6R9QmWeVxAWSQ79IiJJE+JvkONA9/9+xuvCy6ruxh1G2IeJ4Uwnb1clHEi3aUIcsxYKbXs/Z0cIAGeF5GEXS8emFtxq4D/ndZFQryxSo/CHb238lW+E/z/UPikejvOOOBbjAwN65RU0= ; Message-ID: <20060227041604.87272.qmail@web60013.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.84.121] by web60013.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:16:04 EST Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:16:04 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: "Webster, Andrew" , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC311@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: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:16:05 -0000 --- "Webster, Andrew" wrote: > > > > > > > Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to > output > > > > French > > > > > > > characters? If so, how? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Try this when X is running: > > > > setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic > > > > > > Hey! This works in my X windows (é, è, ç, à, ê, ï) but my > > > terminal > > > emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to > toggle > > > back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? > > Hmm, looks like you are outputting UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1, or at > least your mailer is doing that. UTF-8 is 16bit characters for the > accented characters. > Which window manager are you using with X? KDE or Gnome? Both have > keyboard manipulation tools as part of their packages. > > Personally I prefer the US International keyboard. This way the > characters stay where they belong, but ', ", ^, ~, and ` are dead keys, > so if you type ' followed by a you get �. > > I don't know if there is a quick switch key combination as in windows, > but I'm sure there is something that can be setup. Allrighty. I installed xxkb and it works well for toggling languages (keyboard mappings). I can also achieve the same effect using a key-combination. I am using the fluxbox window manager. So the problem remains that what I see when I type is not what appears in a browser. For instance, the following character is an 'E' with a small "front slash" on top of it: É. Is that what YOU see right now? I also cannot type out any of these characters at an xterm or on the console. -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca