Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
Daniel Landry
dlandry@denharco.com
Thu Jul 7 22:12:00 GMT 2005
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
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