RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Ugh, top-posting.  Reformatted.

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote:

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De:	Daniel Landry
> Date:	6 juillet 2005 16:34
> A:	'Alexander Gottwald'; 'cygwin-xfree<at>cygwin.com'

Also, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De:	Alexander Gottwald
> > Date:	6 juillet 2005 14:56
> >
> > > 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.
> > > ^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose A
> > > [snip]
> >
> > 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.
> > [snip]
>
> 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.
> [snip]

Ah.  I'm going to venture a guess and say that it's not simply an xterm,
but an xterm running bash[*] that doesn't work, and direct you to
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC48>.

HTH,
	Igor
[*] bash uses readline, and, most likely, so does the python interpreter
environment (top-level?).
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