Roger Price (HE12025-12-21): > The keyboard is very much part of the locale. dpkg-reconfigure locale > automatically changes the keyboard for the user's applications, including ssh.
This statement is so wrong and stated with so much misplaced certainty that it is hard to reply to it without at least sarcasm. The most ridiculous part of it is the mention of ssh, which is not the first one in this thread. With a little common sense, it is easy to realize that the keyboard layout only affects the applications that interacts directly with the keyboard at low-level. Mostly¹, that means the text console in the kernel and the graphical server. Not ssh. But the rest of the statement is completely wrong too. Locales are this: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 → is c3a9 ‘é’ or ‘é’? LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" → is pi 3.14 or 3,14? LC_TIME="POSIX" → “Sun Dec 21” or “dim. 21 déc.” LC_COLLATE="POSIX" → dictionary order LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" → do your software talk to you in badly translation? LC_MONETARY="POSIX" → no idea how to exemplify, definitely not keyboard LC_PAPER="POSIX" → ditto LC_NAME="POSIX" → ditto LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" → ditto LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" → ditto LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" → ditto LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" → ditto -- Nicolas George
