Language and keyboard problems

[Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta]

I'm back :-|

>>I've just installed Kubuntu 5.04 on an iMac Rev. A and had very few
>>problems.  Screen resolution was something awkward, but I solved the
>>problem with runing
>>
>>	dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
>>
>>I was also hoping to solve another problem - the keyboard layout -
>>but I'm still unable to write characters such as @, {, [, ], }.  BTW,
>>my keyboard has a portuguese layout.  Any ideas how to solve this
>>problem?
> 
> 
> With respect to KDE apps, you should be able to simply select your 
> keyboard layout in kcontrol -> regional & accessibility -> keyboard layout

This procedure doesn't work!  In fact, it doesn't really matter which 
keyboard layout I select - US or Portuguese - everything works fine 
apart from being unable to write some character (@, {, [, ], }, €).  I 
wonder if there is a conflict between X and KDE.  Is this possible?

>>Finally, during installation I choose english as the default
>>language. How do I change english to another language (I want
>>portuguese) without having to reinstall everything?
> 
> 
> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" and choose the locales 
> which you want to generate

No problems with this.  My system is now working with two languages

-- 
Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta
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