Le Jeudi 8 Février 2007 14:44, Peter a écrit : > Le Jeudi 8 Février 2007 06:16, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : > > On 2007-02-08 00:38, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 16:03, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit : > > >>> Yes, I tried > > >>> > > >>> fr.iso.acc.kbd > > >>> fr.iso.kbd > > >>> fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd > > >>> > > >>> Maybe I need to inform FreeBSD about the layout of my keyboard. > > >>> All I get are beeps when I hit the special French accent keys. > > >> > > >> This usually means that you are typing 8-bit (i.e. French) > > >> characters at a shell prompt, but you have not set or configured > > >> any locale environment yet, or you have the wrong locale > > >> environment. > > >> > > >> If this is true, and you are hearing the beeps when typing at a > > >> shell prompt, then please tell us which shell you are using and > > >> what you see by typing: > > >> > > >> % locale > > > > > > This is what I get: > > > > > > LANG= > > > LC_CTYPE="C" > > > LC_COLLATE="C" > > > LC_TIME="C" > > > LC_NUMERIC="C" > > > LC_MONETARY="C" > > > LC_MESSAGES="C" > > > LC_ALL= > > > > Right. You haven't set any LANG or LC_xxx environment variables. > > > > Try using one of the French locales, and set the following in your > > shell startup scripts: > > > > LANG='C' > > LC_COLLATE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > LC_CTYPE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > > > If you are using GNU bash, you can set in your `.bashrc' file: > > > > export LANG='C' > > export LC_COLLATE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > export LC_CTYPE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > Thanks a lot Giorgos. It works now. I used the bash method and then > set up a couple of aliases: > > alias french='/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd' > alias english='/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l us.iso.acc.kbd' >
Darn. Now I see that these commands cannot be used via an xterm (remotely via SSH). Any ideas? PM _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
