toggle between english and french (how?)

[Kevin Downey]

On 2/9/07, Peter <pmatulis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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
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You have the server and the workstation. What matters is the keymap
setup on the workstation. If you are running Gnome\GTK on the
workstation SCIM is a nice way to control keyboard layouts. I think
SCIM may also work with KDE\QT

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