Dear all: I noticed this strange behavior. I installed French Canadian keyboard support with plain vanilla configuration steps, i.e. # loadkeys cf for direct consoles (ones which reports ASCII or UTF-8 to a kbd_mode command) and in /etc/xorg.conf a line like Option "XkbLayout" "pc+ca(fr)" (this applies to bash in which kbd_mode reports raw or scancode mode) This works fine in every contexts that I tested, except *unprivileged* bash *when-it-reads-a-command-from-its-standard-input*. For instance, $echo Montréal français can not be typed due to the eacute character (echo Montral francais), but $cat Montréal français ^C works as expected, and a vim session also works. Privileged (root) bash sessions work in Crux, and unprivileged sessions in a Suse distribution also works. Note that the special keystrokes sequences that generate a character code *in-the-ASCII-range* works in every case, e.g. <AltCar> 2 generates the @ character and ^ <space> ganerates ^ (^ e is expected to generate ê or ecircumflex). It is not a serious issue for me, it just made my configuration troubleshooting more tedious. Perhaps this strange behavior has other side-effects, so I'm reporting this as seemingly Crux (2.4) specific. P.S. If I may get an account for the wiki, I might report the kernel config file that worked for my Lenovo T61 laptop installation. Regards, -- - Thierry Moreau CONNOTECH Experts-conseils inc. 9130 Place de Montgolfier Montreal, Qc Canada H2M 2A1 Tel.: (514)385-5691 Fax: (514)385-5900 web site: http://www.connotech.com e-mail: thierry.moreau@connotech.com