(en anglais, by courtesy to Konstantinos who is CC'ed to this mail. If answering, please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC'ed and possibly answer in English : if you can't do it in French, I'll deal with it with Kostas)
Folks from -user-french, below is a message from my friend Konstantinos Margaritis who recently, built a package named localization-config aimed at automatically configure several stuff depending on the general system locale. This utility will be probably adopted by next generations of Debian Installer (for sarge release, the delay will probably be too short unfortunately....but we're trying anyway). Among several things, the utility pre-seeds settings for X keyboard configuration. One of the major problems of a French install (with a French keyboard...a normal install...not an install by a geek who thinks you not a man if you don't use a US keyboard) is getting X installed with a default US keyboard mapping. Localization-config will prevent this. It is not perfect, for sure : choosing the keyboard layout depending on the locale may lead to errors when people do NOT use their language/country usual keyboard. But, at the minimum, this will choose quite sane defaults. I need help from french-speaking users from OTHER COUNTRIES THAN FRANCE. Can you please complete the following with the appropriate X keyboard settigns for your keyboards ? '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'es', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'da_DK' => { LAYOUT => 'dk', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'de', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'de', XKBOPTIONS => 'nodeadkeys', XKBMODEL => 'pc105' }, 'el_GR.UTF-8' => { LAYOUT => 'us,el', XKBOPTIONS => 'grp:ctrl_shift_toggle', XKBMODEL => 'pc105' }, 'en_AU' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'en_CA' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'en_US' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'es_AR' => { LAYOUT => 'es', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'es', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'es_MX' => { LAYOUT => 'la', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'es_PE' => { LAYOUT => 'es_la', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'fi', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'fr_CA' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'fr', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'it', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'ja_JP.eucJP' => { LAYOUT => 'jp', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL => 'jp106' }, 'ko_KR' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'lv_LV' => { LAYOUT => 'lv', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'nb_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'no', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, # Same as no_NO 'nds_DE' => { LAYOUT => 'de', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'nn_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'no', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'no_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'no', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, # Same as nb_NO 'pt_BR' => { LAYOUT => 'br', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'se_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'sapmi', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'sv_SE' => { LAYOUT => 'se', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, 'tr_TR' => { LAYOUT => 'tr', XKBOPTIONS => 'grp_led:caps' }, Konstantinos I already wrote : > 'fr_CA' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, Probably wrong. There is a Canadian keyboard, different from US. I'm not sure of the exact layout. Maybe 'ca' but IIRC the console keyboard map is "cf.kmap". > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'fr', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' > }, Correct, but also add fr_FR to the list if you can. As I mentioned you, several users still use this locale. This is probably the same for all Euro countries (except Greece?). There is also a different keyboard for French Switzerland 'fr_CH' => { LAYOUT => 'fr_CH', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' }, For fr_BE this is MAYBE: 'fr_BE' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' }, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' }, > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' => { LAYOUT => 'it', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, > 'ja_JP.eucJP' => { LAYOUT => 'jp', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL => 'jp106' }, You seem to support XKBMODEL, so I suggest you add it for fr_FR locales and set it to 'pc105'. Same for most european locales, I guess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]