HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Internationalization
Greek Euro Support
Chapter 9
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Greek Euro Support
System level support is provided for enabling the Euro within supported Greek locales.
In June 2000, Greece joined 11 other countries in adopting the Euro as their currency,
with the complete transition effective as of January 1, 2002.
Summary of Change
Systems level support has been provided to allow for the input, storage, retrieval,
display and printing of the Euro within the two supported Greek locales: el_GR.utf8 and
el_GR.iso88597.
Greek Euro support has been provided in HP-UX 11i v1.6 via updates to locales, iconv
converters, fonts, Xlib and CDE.
The level of Euro support provided for Greek is similar to that provided for Western
European countries as of HP-UX 11.00 Extension Pack (May 1999) and HP-UX 11i v1.0:
• Dual currency support using @euro modifier
• Euro display and processing capabilities
• Euro input capabilities in Greek locales
• Printer support of Euro with other Greek characters
Details of Change
Euro-enabled Greek Locales:
The el_GR.utf8 and el_GR.iso88597 locales have been enhanced with the addition of 4
new characters, including the Euro:
Also, the el_GR.utf8 locale binaries are now shipping as part of the release. Previously,
only the el_GR.utf8 source file was provided for the user to build separately.
Locale-specific monetary processing and formatting:
When the LANG and/or LC_* environment variables are set to these Euro-enabled
locales, the national monetary formatting rules are used to continue support for legacy
(Drachma-based) applications. To access the monetary formatting rules for the Euro
within the respective locale, the LC_MONETARY environment variable should be set to
the desired locale name with the @euro modifier.
Table 9-9 New Characters in Greek Locales
Character Name: ISO-88597
Code Point
Unicode UTF-8
Euro 0xA4 0x20AC 0xE282AC
Drachma Sign 0xA5 0x20AF 0xE282AF
Greek Ypogegrammeni 0xAA 0x037A 0xCDBA
Greek Question Mark 0xAE 0x037E 0xCDBE