HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Internationalization
Greek Euro Support
Chapter 9
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NOTE The following 3 characters currently have no Greek EBCDIC Code Page 875 code points
defined. Consequently, in converting from either ISO-88597, Unicode or UTF-8, these
characters is mapped to the Undefined Character for Greek EBCDIC (0xFF). These 3
characters are subject to data loss in round trip conversions between these codesets:
Displaying the Euro for Greek:
X11R6 Xlib has been enhanced to support the Euro when running in el_GR.iso88597 and
el_GR.utf8 locales.
New font glyphs have been added to support the 4 new characters in ISO-88597. CDE is
providing XlocaleDB for the el_GR.utf8 locale, and with this new XlocaleDB, el_GR.utf8
uses updated ISO-88597 fonts for displaying the euro.
Inputting the Euro for Greek:
Additional keymap support has been added to allow users of Greek-Latin keyboards to
input the Euro symbol. The AltGr+5 sequence can be used with this new keymap
(PS2_DIN_Greek_Euro) to input the Euro character.
Alternatively, users with US English keyboards can use the PS2_DIN_US_English_Euro
keymap where the Euro symbol is mapped to AltGr+4.
CDE provides support to input and display the euro in the iso8859-7 locale.
The additional 3 characters do not have keybindings in any Xserver keymaps. The
reason for this is that there is no standard definition among the X Window vendors on
which key sequences should activate those other symbols. As a result, they are assigned
key bindings whenever the mappings are clarified by the industry.
0Xfe 0Xff 0Xbb
Table 9-12 Undefined Characters for Greek EBCDIC
ISO-88597
Greek
Unicode
EBCDIC
(CP 875)
Character
0xa5 0x20af <undefined> Drachma Sign
0xaa 0x037a <undefined> Greek Ypogrgrammeni
0xae 0x037e <undefined> Greek Question Mark
Table 9-11 Greek EBCDIC/Code Page875 to ISO-88597 Code Mapping Changes
Code Page 875 ISO-88597
(Incorrect)
ISO-88597
(Correct)