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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:29:41AM -0800, Elvis Presley wrote:

> LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 in my .profile.

Note that "LANG" is the i18n-related variable with the lowest
priority; so if some LC_* variable is defined, the value of LANG
can be ignored, you should never trust it on a glibc system.
Instead, if you want to be sure, you should set LC_ALL
and LANGUAGE (that one for the translation of the interface
of the programs)

> with my modest change. That's why I was wondering what the intent was. Was I
> supposed to change anything to get the unicode support?

It depends on the distribution, and on the programs (programs using
unicode internally and querying the keyboard directly in utf-8
are more or less independent of the system locale setting; those
querying the keyboard in the current locale won't be able to allow
input of chars outside the scope of the encoding of the locale)

> I mean, it correctly rotates through the keymaps I have defined. [I wanted
> Alt+Shift, to mimic the way XP works, but the program still maed me put in the
> third key.]

You can use alt-shift to switch between keyboards b defining it directly
in X11 server, eg: setxkbmap "us,el" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
 
> By the way, the current Fedora Core exhibits the same Ctrl+Alt+K behaviour 
> [but
> the current Debian works as you would expect.]

The reason why Ctrl-Alt-K works from us->el but not the other way around
is a known KDE bug; the reason is that the KDE keyboard switcher applet
doesn't load a stack of keyboard maps, but only one at once,
and in the Greek layout there is no latin "k" letter! so you cannot
type Ctrl-Alt-K (nor anything with latin letters) when the greek layout
has been loaded that way.
if instead of using the KDE keyboard switcher you use X11 directly
(with setxkbmap or in the config file) and load two or more layouts
(eg "us,el" above) then Ctrl-X or Alt-X etc with X a latin letter will
work, as X11 will be able to find it on the "us" layout (or other layout
you choosed).

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