toggle between english and french (how?)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-02-06 17:29, Peter <pmatulis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server (lighttpd)
> and a file server (samba).  The kicker is that I will need to allow
> for French characters (?, ?, ?, etc).  I had such an issue before but
> only managed to solve it at the X level (via xorg.conf).  Now I need
> to solve it at the console level.
>
> The Handbook has a lot of ideas but it seems focused on a per user
> basis instead of on a system level basis.  Then again, maybe I just
> don't understand what its trying to say.
>
> I would also need to toggle back and forth between English and French.

Have a look at the keymaps for French in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps':

  $ ( cd /usr/share/syscons/keymaps; ls -l *fr* )
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 9148 Feb  2 15:29 fr.dvorak.acc.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7702 Feb  2 15:29 fr.dvorak.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 8613 Feb  2 15:29 fr.iso.acc.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7659 Feb  2 15:29 fr.iso.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 8715 Feb  2 15:29 fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7825 Feb  2 15:29 swissfrench.cp850.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 8577 Feb  2 15:29 swissfrench.iso.acc.kbd
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7766 Feb  2 15:29 swissfrench.iso.kbd
  $