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Subject: Re: How to setup franch canadien keyboard on my virtual console
Poster: YvesSavoiemaxwell@globetrotter.net
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:35:28 GMT
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Christian Mangin wrote:


> Le Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:25:48 GMT
> Yves Savoie a écrit:
>
>
>> I use my computer like a small files server. The computer who write files
>> on this server is in windows or linux and all use french canadien
>> keyboard. The files on this server have filename and pathname with french
>> character. If i have some files with link between them the link is broken
>> because the french character in the pathname is not supported.
>>
>> I use csh. I put this line in my /root/.cshrc and /home/user/.cshrc
>>
>> setenv LANG fr_CA
>> setenv LC_CTYPE fr_CA.ISO8859-1
>> setenv LC_COLLATE fr_CA.ISO8859-1
>>
>> after login i try
>> kbdcontrol -l fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd
>> vidcontrol -f 8x16 iso-8x16.fnt
>>
>> and i try to write text with french character from console with no
>> result. I can see some system message in french but i don't see one
>> message with french character for now.
>> thanks!
>>
>> Yves
>>
>
> Hmm...
>
> Check if your environment variables are actually set:
> env | grep LC

#env | grep LC LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_COLLATE=fr_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_ALL=fr_CA.ISO8859-1
>
> Also you might want to set LC_ALL:
> setenv LC_ALL fr_CA.ISO8859-1
>
> If it still doesn't work, check if you have nls support in tcsh (should be
> in by default) tcsh --version

#tcsh --version tcsh 6.14.00(Astron) 2005-03-25 (i386-intel-FreeBSD) option widw,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,filec


>
> Also you might want to switch to another shell and see what happens. (Just
> type 'sh' and see if you can get french characters)
> I try with sh and samething

yves

 

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