Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 04:06:05 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?) Message-ID: <20070209020604.GB11035@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <200702081509.21485.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070208111627.GA2213@kobe.laptop> <200702081444.01758.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <200702081509.21485.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
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On 2007-02-08 15:09, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Le Jeudi 8 F?vrier 2007 14:44, Peter a ?crit : > > Le Jeudi 8 F?vrier 2007 06:16, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit : > > > Try using one of the French locales, and set the following in your > > > shell startup scripts: > > > > > > LANG='C' > > > LC_COLLATE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > > LC_CTYPE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > > > > > If you are using GNU bash, you can set in your `.bashrc' file: > > > > > > export LANG='C' > > > export LC_COLLATE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > > export LC_CTYPE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1' > > > > Thanks a lot Giorgos. It works now. I used the bash method and then > > set up a couple of aliases: > > > > alias french='/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd' > > alias english='/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l us.iso.acc.kbd' > > Darn. Now I see that these commands cannot be used via an xterm > (remotely via SSH). Any ideas? When you are sitting on an xterm in machine A and you ssh into FreeBSD system B, it's the local client's responsibility to set a proper locale and internationalization environment for *displaying* stuff and its FreeBSD's responsibility for letting you type French if your FreeBSD locale is French too. Setting the console keyboard map with kbdcontrol on a remote FreeBSD system cannot affect your local xterm window.
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