--- "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.
--
Peter
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