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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

I ran across some information recently that may be of help to BL users who
use various languages and need to switch "on the fly" between keyboard
layouts. I haven't tried it, but I do not see why it wouldn't work under
BL, if the program setxkbmap and the relevant keyboard map is on the
system. Anyway, here's the information:

There are a number of keyboard layouts for linux, however, and an easy
way to switch keyboards. For example, you can use ctrl/shift to switch
between the english and hellenic keyboards by entering the following two
lines in your .profile:

export LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8
setxkbmap us+el polytonic -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle

This will enable UTF characters and set your keyboard to switch between
the "us" english and hellenic "el" layout groups. You can leave the
"polytonic" option out (a keyboard layout modifier for hellenic) or you
can choose an alternate group switch code.

James