I'm familiar with deadkeys, but they don't work on my Cygwin installation. The <e> character is a special key that doesn't request any deadkey and it doesn't work either. Using any accented character give always the same result: BEEP without any character displayed. All other characters seem to work correctly. I give a try to the "fr" mapping with the same result. One of my co-workers has also installed Cygwin on his computer and he obtained the same results as mine. I made an upgrade this morning to be certain that I'm having the last Cygwin version. If it can help, my computer is a Dell Latitude C840.
The first time that I saw the fr_CA layout on Linux was with Redhat using Xfree86 and I also recently saw it with Gentoo (2005.0) using Xorg. I'm presuming it is part of the Xfree86 and Xorg projects. You can also find a reference in the Cygwin file /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86. However, running "setxkbmap fr_CA" in Cygwin give " Error loading new keyboard description". Note that I can adapt myself to use ca or ca_enhanced without problem. It is easy to adapt us if only few keys are to a different place. Thanks for your support -----Message d'origine----- De: Alexander Gottwald Date: 6 juillet 2005 14:56 A: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'; Daniel Landry Objet: RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: > Running setxkbmap with each layouts (ca, fr_CA, ca_enhanced) don't fix the > problem. In all case, the French accents are replaced by a BEEP and any > character is displayed. However, I can make a cut and paste from WinXP > without any problem. ca_enhanced uses deadkeys. I get this layout (not printing modifier, backspace and stuff) #1234567890-= qwertyuiop^ asdfghjkl;`< "zxcvbnm,.e ^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose A > Concerning the key mapping, I'm using fr_CA on my Debian at home and it's > working great. This must be a debian special. There is no such layout in Cygwin/X > However, as Cygwin run on Windows, I presume that the best > would be to keep the same keyboard mapping that Windows uses. At least in the autedetection list. You can override the defaults with the -xkblayout parameter anyway and set a different layout. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723