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RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
- From: Daniel Landry <dlandry at denharco dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "'pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu'" <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>, 'Alexander Gottwald' <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:07:17 -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, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>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>.
>[*] bash uses readline, and, most likely, so does the python interpreter
environment (top-level?).
Your guess is right. I have followed the link and adapt to my specific
need but it seems that I have missed something. Accented characters are
printed as if convert-meta is set to on. As an example e (e acute) is
displayed as \351. These are my home configuration files
# .bashrc
?
alias less='less -r'
alias ls='ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars'
export LANG="fr"
export LC_ALL="fr_CA"
export LC_CTYPE="iso-8859-1"
export OUTPUT_CHARSET="iso-8859-1"
export LESSCHARSET="iso8859"
setxkbmap ca_enhanced
# .inputrc
set meta-flag on # enable 8-bit input
set convert-meta off # don't strip 8-bit characters
set input-meta on # enable 8-bit input
set output-meta on # display 8-bit characters correctly
Daniel Landry