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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Do you know how to do this for the console keyboard?

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, James Miller wrote:

> 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
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