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RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>, "dlandry at denharco dot com" <dlandry at denharco dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:55:56 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
- References: <A996F029B716D211A5BF00A0C9B3F90C022393BA@NTHYAC02>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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,.é
^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose Â
> 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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