xdotool and keyboard layout

Question

Problem

I am trying to do:

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xdotool type 'date;'

but instead of the expected

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date;

I get:

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dateq

I have a greek keyboard, but when I issue the command the language is set to US. A note: when greek language is used, the key 'q' of the keyboard is used for the semicolon ';' (this is the default behavior/mapping)

Question

What can I do to get a semicolon with xdotool's type?

Some info

I am on Xfce 4.8 on XUbuntu

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$ xfce4-terminal -V
xfce4-terminal 0.4.8 (Xfce 4.8)

$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,gr
variant:    ,
options:    grp:caps_toggle
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+us+gr:2+inet(evdev)+capslock(grouplock)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
    xkb_types     { include "complete"  };
    xkb_compat    { include "complete"  };
    xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+gr:2+inet(evdev)+capslock(grouplock)"    };
    xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)" };
};

$ sudo lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:   precise

Answer 1

try

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setxkbmap <yourlocale>

before calling xdotool