toggle between english and french (how?)

[Peter]

Le Mardi 6 Février 2007 17:45, Andrew Pantyukhin a écrit :
> On 2/7/07, Peter <pmatulis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server
> > (lighttpd) and a file server (samba).  The kicker is that I will
> > need to allow for French characters (é, à, ç, etc).  I had such an
> > issue before but only managed to solve it at the X level (via
> > xorg.conf).  Now I need to solve it at the console level.
> >
> > The Handbook has a lot of ideas but it seems focused on a per user
> > basis instead of on a system level basis.  Then again, maybe I just
> > don't understand what its trying to say.
> >
> > I would also need to toggle back and forth between English and
> > French.
> >
> > Thanks in advance to any responders,
>
> Are you sure about the console level? If you plan
> to access the server via ssh, you only need to
> set server-side locale right, the rest is handled
> at the client side.

I assume by server-side you mean within samba and lighttpd.  Yes, as 
long as these two can output the characters then I'm happy.  I just 
copied the first paragraph of my posting into lighttpd and this is what 
came back in my browser:

I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server (lighttpd) and 
a file server (samba). The kicker is that I will need to allow for 
French characters (é,ç, etc). I had such an issue before but only 
managed to solve it at the X level (via xorg.conf). Now I need to 
solve it at the console level.