switch languages

[in...@lespetitsplaisirs.com]

I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the=
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same document. Is there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD=20
quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows?
On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards.
An alternate way of entering accented or "strange" characters (on Windows)=
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is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt=
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- 0233 produces =E9.
What options are there in FBSD - Unix?
Thanks for any help.
PJ

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[pi...@bellnet.ca]

At 04:18 PM 10/31/2002 +0000, you wrote:
I have to slap my own hands - dumb.
I was not clear - When I say I have to switch languages, I am using
OpenOffice (trying to replace MS Ofc) and have to use text and graphics in
the same document. So, I don't think that I could use emacs since it is a
text only editor.

>The carbonbased lifeform in...@lespetitsplaisirs.com shocked
>freebsd-questions with:

> > I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within
> the

> > same document. Is there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD

> > quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows?
>

>Why not install emacs and leim? Use menu->Options->Mule and select
>language environment to European->latin-9. Then toggle the input
>method from the same menu and pick the default. Now you can type ~c
>and get a c cedille and 'e to automatically get an e accent aigu. To
>find the exact keybindings, pick Describe Input Method from the same
>menu. Easy as pie!
>
>--
>Ban All Sigs!!

[sw...@attbi.com]

in...@lespetitsplaisirs.com writes:

> I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within

> the same document. Is there some way to switch keyboard layouts on
> FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows?

Quickly and painlessly? Ha Ha. Not until you set things up on your
own and assigned the switch to whatever key or menu you prefer. After
you've spent a few days or weeks researching it.

http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/
http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBproto.pdf
http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBlib.pdf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/setxkbmap.1.html
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xkbcomp.1.html
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xkbevd.1.html
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xkbprint.1.html
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/README

I wouldn't be suprised if you'd need to work in some font stuff too.