Changing input language freezes the system

Hello,
when switching from one input language to the other in a time period of one minute or less, the system freezes for 30 seconds and sometimes even more.
Has anyone ever had such an issue?
Any ideas what causing the system to freeze?
Thanks in advance,
Konstantinos

I wish there was a native one for MacOS X
For what it's worth, there are some available via CocoAspell and OpenOffice 2.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
But I am stumped about your freezing problem....
I wonder if you would have the same issue with a different polytonic keyboard. Here are a couple
http://www.sourcecod.com/sophokeys/
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/font/mackeyboard.htm

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Go to Solution.

I had the same problem but found the solutaion by chance.
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