RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

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

Daniel,

Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for
a reason.  There was no need to Cc: me -- I read the list.

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote:

> 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.

At which point this stops being an X-related problem, and is better
discussed on the main list.  I've set the Reply-To: accordingly (though
the xfree list is likely to add another pointing to itself).

> 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.

Displayed by what?  If you type "echo é" at the bash prompt, does that
display properly?  What about "echo -e '\0351'"?

> These are my home configuration files
>
> # .bashrc
> ?
  ^
Huh?

> 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

What does "bind -v | grep meta" show when run from bash?
	Igor
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