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RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
- From: Daniel Landry <dlandry at denharco dot com>
- To: 'Alexander Gottwald' <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:37:46 -0400
- Subject: RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: "dlandry at denharco dot com" <dlandry at denharco dot com>
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote:
> From /tmp/XWin.log
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00001009" (00001009)
> (EE) Keyboardlayout "Francais (Canada)" (00001009) is unknown
> The XKB layout code is "ca" or "fr_CA"
> From Microsoft Global Dev
<http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx> select
"Canadian French"
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> I've recently added "ca_enhanced" as French (Canada), but from the french
> group (0000??0c) instead of the english group (0000??09). A few months
> ago I also added "ca" but removed it again since it did not match the
actual
> layout.
> Is there a difference between those two? Which is more correct? ca,
ca_enhanced
> or fr_CA. Judging from a short test ca_enhanced matches the layout from
the
> website best (the key left to 1 produces / instead of # with "ca").
> you can set the layouts with setxkbmap ca_enhanced.
Running setxkbmap with each layouts (ca, fr_CA, ca_enhanced) don't fix the
problem. In all case, the French accents are replaced by a BEEP and any
character is displayed. However, I can make a cut and paste from WinXP
without any problem.
Concerning the key mapping, I'm using fr_CA on my Debian at home and it's
working great. However, as Cygwin run on Windows, I presume that the best
would be to keep the same keyboard mapping that Windows uses.