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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:23:46 +0100
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching
Message-ID:  <20090428182346.GA23945@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca>
References:  <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca>

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote:
>
> I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about
> using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a
> terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or
> Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered "The White
> Niggers of America"? ;-)
> Anyway, everything I have tried does not work on FreeBSD or on xorg.
> Cannot set it up or switch.
> Somebody, please help.
> 

Have you tried:

Option "XkbLayout" "ca(fr)"

in your keyboard/inputdevice section of xorg.conf?

For the console you want to have a look at kbdmap(1) and the list of
maps.

Looks like you want:

keymap="fr_CA.iso.acc"

in /etc/rc.conf


Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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