Hello Andrea,

thanks for you answer.
But what I want is not to change LANG or LC_ALL.
If I start (in the same xterm) bash or zsh -
the correct keymap is done.
Therefore I believe it's an tcsh problem.

    Regards, Olf Epler

> 
> > my default locale are set to "C" -> /etc/sysconfig/i18n:
> > LANG="C" (or POSIX)
> > If I use bash or zsh it is possible to change the keyboard
> > layout in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and also in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > to another keymap without changing the LANG settings.
> > But this does not work for tcsh. 
> > Only if I also set LANG to the appropriate language the
> > correct keys are printed - but now also the default
> > language english is changed. I want to change only the keymap.
> > Can somebody help?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if tcsh has anything to do with it.
> 
> I suggest you set $LC_ALL and $LANG to "en_US.utf8". Enter your keyboard
> layout in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" (for the text console) and in
> "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (for X apps). That's all.
> 
> I'm attaching some excerpts from my config files. Aside from changing
> "it" to -presumably- "de", they should work if you're using a standard
> PC keyboard.
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN /etc/X11/xorg.conf EXCERPT-----
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option      "XkbModel"          "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout"         "it"
>         Option      "XkbOptions"        "lv3:ralt_switch"
> EndSection
> ------END /etc/X11/xorg.conf EXCERPT------
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN /etc/sysconfig/keyboard-----
> KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
> KEYTABLE="it"
> ------END /etc/sysconfig/keyboard------
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN /etc/csh.cshrc EXCERPT-----
> setenv LC_ALL "en_US.utf8"
> setenv LANG $LC_ALL
> ------END /etc/csh.cshrc EXCERPT------
> 

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