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Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 23

[HELP] rc.conf configuration - English System, with French keyboard

Hi

I just finished the first part of the Arch installation.
I'm a french user, and I want to do something different than the last installation

I would use my system (TTY, Desktop environment in ENGLISH) but I want use my french keyboard (Azerty).
Also, I have some files (music, movie) who contains special caracters like "é,ç,è" and I would be able to play theses files using VLC, Sonata...

I've looked the wiki, and i'm curently configuring my rc.conf but I don't know what put in.

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="US/Eastern"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

Can you help me ? Gives me the right thing to add my rc.conf please ?
Does the lines CONSOLEFONT, LOCALE, & CONSOLEMAP depend on my keyboard configuration ?

Also need help to configure the locale.gen file

Sorry for my english, I don't speak english well :S

principo

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From: Zavidovici, Bosnia

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 7

Re: [HELP] rc.conf configuration - English System, with French keyboard

You just have to set the KEYMAP to "fr-latin1" or just "fr". But remember that those usually dont apply for xorg. Eventually you have to set the keyboard mapping explicitly in your xorg.conf or from your favourite DE. E.g. Gnome: System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layout.

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Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 23

Re: [HELP] rc.conf configuration - English System, with French keyboard

OK,  the KEYMAP line is good.
But what about the others ?

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="US/Eastern"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

Locale ?
Consolefont ?
Consolemap ?

And about the locale.gen file ?
Someone can show me her file ?

Thanks

principo

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From: Zavidovici, Bosnia

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 7

Re: [HELP] rc.conf configuration - English System, with French keyboard

The others are not important. Here is my config for my german keyboard:

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="local"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Vienna"
KEYMAP="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

locale.gen is only important if you want additional languages - in your case i suppose its not the case

Last edited by principo (2009-04-06 13:49:49)

Shunpike

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From: France

Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 47

Re: [HELP] rc.conf configuration - English System, with French keyboard

I use the same setup, and I found the archlinux.fr wiki to be really helpful.

I have those set in rc. conf :
KEYMAP="fr-latin9"
CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"

Then just read through those two pages, they contain everything you need. Just skip the parts about setting the french locale and such.

http://wiki.archlinux.fr/install/langue … 8cc2e10dbf
http://wiki.archlinux.fr/howto/indispensable/xorg

Last edited by Shunpike (2009-04-06 13:55:32)

impert

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 8

Re: [HELP] rc.conf configuration - English System, with French keyboard

Shunpike:
Here's the relevant bit of my /etc/rc.conf:

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Paris"
KEYMAP="fr"
CONSOLEFONT="lat1-12"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-1"
USECOLOR="yes"

Et ça marche bien. éèçàô € et tout le tremblement.

your English is good.