Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:05:58 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching Message-ID: <gt7gfs$9cu$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca>
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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. > Probably should start here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html The command locale -a will show all available locales, and the command locale -m will show all charmaps. You probably want one of: fr_CA.ISO8859-1 fr_CA.ISO8859-15 fr_CA.UTF-8 and a charmap to match above choice: ISO8859-1 ISO8859-15 UTF-8 I don't have direct experience with your situation, but I suspect you may want ISO8859-1 for what you described. More knowledgeable people may know. As far as the attitude is concerned, can't help with that. But you should know that such things just turn people "off", i.e, someone who may have wanted to try and help you will not, just because. Please keep it about FreeBSD, ask technical questions, and leave the rest somewhere else if you truly do want help. This kind of thing can be offensive to others. -Mike
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