toggle between english and french (how?)

[Peter]

Le Mercredi 7 Février 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit :
> 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 $

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.

PM