RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

[Daniel Landry <dlandry at denharco dot com>]

I have found my problem.  I had tried cut and paste functions in Emacs but 
try the new keyboard mapping in Xterm.  In fact, "ca_enhanced" keyboard was 
working in some application, but not on others.  Emacs, vim, nano see well 
the new mapping.  Xterm and some other applications like python interpreter 
environment don't see it, but I can't make any cut and paste with accented 
character either.  I'll see case by case for the configuration of these 
applications but it is no more a keyboard-mapping problem.

Take note also that "ca_enhanced " keyboard is a nice one that fit exactly 
with the symbol on my decking keyboard. It seems that the comment in the 
ca_enhanced description is right: "Most of the french canadian keyboards 
available on PCs are mapped like this."  It will be great if this mapping 
is selected automatically in the future.  That will help the new users.

Thanks again for your support.

-----Message d'origine-----
De:	Daniel Landry
Date:	6 juillet 2005 16:34
A:	'Alexander Gottwald'; 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
Objet:	RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

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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