toggle between english and french (how?)

[Peter]

Le Jeudi 8 Février 2007 21:24, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit :
> 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?

PM