Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:33:57 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard Message-ID: <20060224153357.61053.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC309@mtlex01.connectalk.com>
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--- "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> 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
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