> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 > To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard > > > --- "Webster, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. >
Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic > -- > Peter > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
