Re: toggle between english and french (how?)

On 2007-02-08 15:09, Peter <pmatulis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Le Jeudi 8 F?vrier 2007 14:44, Peter a ?crit :
Le Jeudi 8 F?vrier 2007 06:16, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit :
Try using one of the French locales, and set the following in your
shell startup scripts:

LANG='C'
LC_COLLATE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1'
LC_CTYPE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1'

If you are using GNU bash, you can set in your `.bashrc' file:

export LANG='C'
export LC_COLLATE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1'
export LC_CTYPE='fr_CA.ISO8859-1'

Thanks a lot Giorgos. It works now. I used the bash method and then
set up a couple of aliases:

alias french='/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd'
alias english='/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l us.iso.acc.kbd'

Darn. Now I see that these commands cannot be used via an xterm
(remotely via SSH). Any ideas?

When you are sitting on an xterm in machine A and you ssh into FreeBSD
system B, it's the local client's responsibility to set a proper locale
and internationalization environment for *displaying* stuff and its
FreeBSD's responsibility for letting you type French if your FreeBSD
locale is French too.

Setting the console keyboard map with kbdcontrol on a remote FreeBSD
system cannot affect your local xterm window.

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