xdotool and keyboard layout - bash

Question

Problem
I am trying to do:
xdotool type 'date;'
but instead of the expected
date;
I get:
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
$ 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
setxkbmap <yourlocale>
before calling xdotool

Answer 2

This is a known bug. One thing you can try is upgrading to the newest version of xdotool. If that doesn't work, then check out this page, especially answer #29:
http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/issues/detail?id=13
The issue was resolved by this pull request on 2014-04-07 (which is more than 3 years ago now). If anybody is still having this issue today, I think your best bet is upgrading xdotool.

Answer 3

These work for me:
echo "date;" | xvkbd -xsendevent -file -
xvkbd -xsendevent -text 'date;'
(remove the -xsendevent option and you get the same problem as with xdotool)

Answer 4

extending fazae's answer:
I have the latest version of xdotool, it seems. But the bug is still there:
$ xdotool --version
xdotool version 2.20110530.1
$ xdotool type ';'
$
'$' is typed instead of ';'.
$ xdotool type ':'
^
'^' is typed instead of ':'
FIX (example for the us and ru locales, alt+shift for toggling layouts): set locale to us, enable layout toggling with alt+shift:
$ setxkbmap us && xdotool type ':' && setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle us,ru
: