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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