toggle between english and french (how?)

[Peter]

Le Vendredi 9 Février 2007 10:26, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit :
> On 2007-02-09 00:53, Peter <pmatulis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Le Jeudi 8 F??vrier 2007 21:24, Giorgos Keramidas a ??crit :
> >>On 2007-02-08 18:57, Peter <pmatulis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >>>Le Jeudi 8 F??vrier 2007 16:32, Apatewna a ??crit :
> >>>>O/H Peter έγραψε:
> >>>>> 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=iso-8859-7:\
> >>>> :lang=el_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 
*remotely*.  That's all.

PM