RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

[Daniel Landry <dlandry at denharco dot com>]

I'm familiar with deadkeys, but they don't work on my Cygwin installation. 
 The <e> character is a special key that doesn't request any deadkey and it 
doesn't work either.  Using any accented character give always the same 
result: BEEP without any character displayed.  All other characters seem to 
work correctly.  I give a try to the "fr" mapping with the same result. 
 One of my co-workers has also installed Cygwin on his computer and he 
obtained the same results as mine.  I made an upgrade this morning to be 
certain that I'm having the last Cygwin version.  If it can help, my 
computer is a Dell Latitude C840.

The first time that I saw the fr_CA layout on Linux was with Redhat using 
Xfree86 and I also recently saw it with Gentoo (2005.0) using Xorg.  I'm 
presuming it is part of the Xfree86 and Xorg projects. You can also find a 
reference in the Cygwin file /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86.  However, running 
"setxkbmap fr_CA" in Cygwin give " Error loading new keyboard description". 
 Note that I can adapt myself to use ca or ca_enhanced without problem.  It 
is easy to adapt us if only few keys are to a different place.

Thanks for your support

-----Message d'origine-----
De:	Alexander Gottwald
Date:	6 juillet 2005 14:56
A:	'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'; Daniel Landry
Objet:	RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote:

> 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.

ca_enhanced uses deadkeys. I get this layout (not printing modifier, 
backspace
and stuff)

#1234567890-=
 qwertyuiop^
 asdfghjkl;`<
 "zxcvbnm,.e

^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose A

> Concerning the key mapping, I'm using fr_CA on my Debian at home and it's 
> working great.

This must be a debian special. There is no such layout in Cygwin/X

> However, as Cygwin run on Windows, I presume that the best
> would be to keep the same keyboard mapping that Windows uses.

At least in the autedetection list. You can override the defaults with the
-xkblayout parameter anyway and set a different layout.

bye
	ago
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