Dear Mr. Gillas, Mr. KnopperRegarding the “French Canadian Keyboard” issue, I tried to find out an alternative solution on my way. Before we enter into details, I must confess that I am a Japanese living in Thailand and a layman and an outsider on this issue. In my business, I usually use English, German, Thai, Japanese, and a little bit Chinese. For me, SCIM is an essential tool on Linux.
So now, it's possible for me to produce the à and è letters in OOo with the CA - Multix keyboard, but not ï, ü, ö, ë, (or ô, ê, î, û, â), which, contrary to the umlaut-ed letters in German, are produced with 2 keys.
At first, I experimented the normal KDE Keyboard Layout “French Canadian” on my customised Xnoppix V5.0.1. I am using an US-Keyboard with alphabet and Thai characters on my keys. So, I will indicate each key with a description “< alphabet/symbol on the key >”. For example, “<A>” means the key stroke “Shift + a”. I could confirm following key combinations on “Kwrite”:
================================================= KDE Keyboard Layout = Canadian – Variant = French ================================================= 1. </> on US-keyboard -> é <?> on US-keyboard -> É 2. <'> and <a> on US-keyboard -> à <'> and <A> on US-keyboard -> À <'> and <e> on US-keyboard -> è <'> and <E> on US-keyboard -> È <'> and <i> on US-keyboard -> ì <'> and <I> on US-keyboard -> Ì <'> and <o> on US-keyboard -> ò <'> and <O> on US-keyboard -> Ò <'> and <u> on US-keyboard -> ù <'> and <U> on US-keyboard -> Ù 3. <[> and <a> on US-keyboard -> â <[> and <A> on US-keyboard -> Â <[> and <e> on US-keyboard -> ê <[> and <E> on US-keyboard -> Ê <[> and <i> on US-keyboard -> î <[> and <I> on US-keyboard -> Î <[> and <o> on US-keyboard -> ô <[> and <O> on US-keyboard -> Ô <[> and <u> on US-keyboard -> û <[> and <U> on US-keyboard -> Û 4. <}> and <a> on US-keyboard -> ä <}> and <A> on US-keyboard -> Ä <}> and <e> on US-keyboard -> ë <}> and <E> on US-keyboard -> Ë <}> and <i> on US-keyboard -> ï <}> and <I> on US-keyboard -> Ï <}> and <o> on US-keyboard -> ö <}> and <O> on US-keyboard -> Ö <}> and <u> on US-keyboard -> ü <}> and <U> on US-keyboard -> Ü 5. <]> and <c> on US-keyboard -> ç <]> and <C> on US-keyboard -> Ç ============================================= French Canadian characters on OpenOffice.org2 =============================================Unfortunately, these key combinations do not work on OpenOffice.org2 except No. 1 (é,É). So, I activated SCIM and chose the IMEngine “English/European”. Using KDE Keyboard Layout “French Canadian” and SCIM “English/European” together, all the key combinations above work very well also on OpenOffice.org2.
By the way, SCIM has a global setting “Keyboard layout”, but I could not find any difference in the result between “English (US)” and “French (Canadian)”.
Best redards djugem