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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:42:18 -0500
From:      Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, apatewna@yahoo.gr
Subject:   Re: toggle between english and french (how?)
Message-ID:  <200702091142.18723.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20070209152625.GA3512@kobe.laptop>
References:  <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <200702090053.52505.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070209152625.GA3512@kobe.laptop>

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Le Vendredi 9 F=C3=A9vrier 2007 10:26, Giorgos Keramidas a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> On 2007-02-09 00:53, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Le Jeudi 8 F??vrier 2007 21:24, Giorgos Keramidas a ??crit=C2=A0:
> >>On 2007-02-08 18:57, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >>>Le Jeudi 8 F??vrier 2007 16:32, Apatewna a ??crit=C2=A0:
> >>>>O/H Peter =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5:
> >>>>> Darn.  Now I see that these commands cannot be used via an
> >>>>> xterm (remotely via SSH).  Any ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>> I always change the locale settings in ~/.login_conf
> >>>> For example for the greek language I use :
> >>>>
> >>>> me:\
> >>>>
> >>>> :charset=3Diso-8859-7:\
> >>>> :lang=3Del_GR.UTF-8:
> >>>
> >>> I guess I'm achieving the same thing via ~/.profile.  I just need
> >>> a way to change keyboard layouts remotely.
> >>
> >> Do you *really* have to?  I'm setting an X11 keyboard layout on my
> >> FreeBSD laptop locally, and it works fine for remote servers which
> >> I access through ssh too...
> >
> > The French keyboard is significantly different.  I suppose I could
> > have a French keyboard by default but it would be quite annoying to
> > work on. Is that what you're proposing?
>
> Not really.  I'm just trying to understand why you have to change the
> *remote* keyboard map.  The local keyboard map is what really
> matters, and this should work fine with the remote shell enrivonment
> for any locale/language.

Ok.  What I want to be able to do is *occasionally* edit files in French=20
*remotely*.  That's all.

PM



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