In reporse to my own post #13 I found that the temporary solution is to use
sudo setxkbmap "fr(oss)","fr(oss_latin9)"
Both layouts seem to work as they should.
In reporse to my own post #13 I found that the temporary solution is to use
sudo setxkbmap "fr(oss) ","fr(oss_ latin9) "
Both layouts seem to work as they should.