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Greek, greek - Introduction to Greek language support
DESCRIPTION
This reference page describes the codeset, locale, device, and other
kinds of support for the Greek language.
Codesets
The operating system supports the following coded character sets (code‐
sets) for Greek: ISO 8859-7 (ISO Latin/Greek)
ISO8859-7 is the string that represents this codeset in the
names of locales and codeset converters. See iso8859-7(5) for
information on the ISO Latin/Greek codeset. PC code-page for‐
mats (supported through codeset converters only)
cp737, cp869, and cp1253 are the strings that represent these
encoding formats in the names of codeset converters. See
code_page(5) for information on PC code pages. UTF-16, UCS-4,
and UTF-8 encoding formats (file data supported through codeset
converters only)
UTF-16, UCS-4, and UTF-8 are the strings that represent these
encoding formats in the names of codeset converters. See Uni‐
code(5) for information on these encoding formats.
See i18n_intro(5) and l10n_intro(5) for introductory information on
codesets. See iconv_intro(5) for a discussion of codeset converters and
how to use them.
Locales
The operating system provides the following Greek locales:
el_GR.ISO8859-7
This locale is also available under the name
el_GR.ISO8859-7@ucs4 for applications that need to convert data
between ISO8859-7 file format and UCS-4 process code for charac‐
ter classification operations. el_GR.UTF-8
UTF-8 locales support file code and internal process code
according to ISO 10646 and Unicode standards. File code, in
UTF-8 locales, may include characters encoded in more than 1
byte; therefore, use these locales in applications that can
process multibyte data.
The el_GR.UTF-8 locale uses the euro symbol for currency. Because the
el_GR.ISO8859-7 locale repertoire does not contain the euro symbol, it
continues to use the drachma currency symbol. See euro(5).
You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to find out if this
locale is installed on your system. See i18n_intro(5) for information
on setting a locale from the operating system command line.
In the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), you need to set a locale by
setting the session language. To do this, from the Options menu of the
Login window, choose Language. Then, from the Language options menu,
choose a session language.
Keyboards
The operating system supports the following VT-style and PC-style key‐
boards for Greek:
──────────────────────────────────────────────
VT-Style (105/108 keys) PC-Style (102 keys)
──────────────────────────────────────────────
LK411 LK471-BH
LK461 LK97W-BH
Greek LK471 PCXAL-HH
PCXAL-LH
──────────────────────────────────────────────
For your keyboard to function correctly with your system, you must load
a keyboard mapping table (keymap) that is appropriate for your key‐
board's model and language. If you load a keymap that does not corre‐
spond to your keyboard's model and language, your keyboard behavior is
unpredictable. The label located on the bottom surface of a keyboard
usually specifies its model (five-letter code) and language (two-letter
code). See keyboard(5) for general information on keymaps and instruc‐
tions for loading them in different formats. The following tables sup‐
ply Greek-specific information that you need when loading keymaps.
Selecting keymaps in xkb format:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
For VT-Style For PC-Style
Keyboard: Select: Keyboard: Select:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
LK411 lk411 LK471-BH lk471bh or lk471
LK461 lk461 LK97W-BH lk97wbh or lk97w
PCXAL-HH pcxalhh
PCXAL-LH pcxallh
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Selecting keymaps in xmodmap format:
─────────────────────────────
For PC-Style
Keyboard: Select:
─────────────────────────────
PCXAL-HH greek pcxalhh
PCXAL-LH greek pcxallh
─────────────────────────────
Keyboards can have keys with characters printed on both the left and
right half of the keycap. The way you set or use your keyboard to send
different sets of characters varies from one keyboard model to another.
Furthermore, your keyboard allows you to enter more characters than
those printed on the keycaps. See keyboard(5) for information on how to
enter characters.
Printers
For information on setting up and configuring printers for non-English
text, see i18n_printing(5).
PostScript fonts available for languages supported by the ISO 8859-7
codeset are listed in iso8859-7(5).
SEE ALSO
Commands: locale(1)
Others: code_page(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5),
iso8859-7(5), keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)
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