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Re: French keyboard
- To: VARDI Ilan <ilan at ihes dot fr>
- Subject: Re: French keyboard
- From: Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit at wanadoo dot fr>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:27:16 +0200
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200105301029.f4UATT018834@cactus.ihes.fr>
- Reply-To: JGMBenoit at wanadoo dot fr
VARDI Ilan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Windows Millenium computer bought in France and which has a
> French keyboard and a French version of the operating system.
> However, I am mostly using an external American keyboard.
>
> I just downloaded Cygwin to my computer and the resulting shell echoes
> French (azerty) characters. After some investigation, I have found that
> the DOS command window is also always in AZERTY, despite control panel
> settings to QWERTY. Thus, one concludes that Cygwin applies the default
> DOS window.
For DOS I guess you have to look in the `c:\autoexec.bat' in the Windows root
directory:
In mine I read:
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,c\windows\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
I guess that your get a similar line:
so you can try to set a new keyboard by modifying this line and reboot your
computer.
I hope that helps,
Jerome BENOIT
>
>
> Therefore, how do I convert the Cygwin window to QWERTY, or equivalently,
> the DOS window to QWERTY?
>
> I looked at the mailing list, but I couldn't find the relevant information.
> I am also trying to minimize my knowledge of MS-DOS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ilan
>
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