[MLUG] Kubuntu 10.10, ca fr keyboard not working anymore

[Rich]

On 04/10/2011 11:14 AM, ravnox at arkanox.net wrote:
>> If your willing to re-install then i would recommend you
>> blast /home/your-username/*.* and pretty much anything else not in
>> the /etc/skel directory as a hidden file which pretty much gives you a
>> clean slate. I mean takes less than 2 min and sure beats a reinstall
>>
>> ---
>> Nick Sklav
>> www.sklav.com
> Thanks for the suggestion.  The problem went away as I moved my profile.
>

My wife had something similar occur using an US-English-style keyboard.  
She selected Montreal for the time zone.  By doing so, several 
applications including Flash would generate French characters when 
certain keys were pressed.  Removing the French keyboard setting didn't 
work, it would restore the English and Canadian keyboard layouts anytime 
she restarted her system.

I traced it down to  /etc/default/locale.  Changing the LANG variable to 
'en_US.UTF-8' solved the problem.
This will fix it for now til she wants a French keyboard. :)