HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Encoding Characters
Euro Support
Chapter 2
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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 four 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 three 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
Printing Euro with Greek Characters
The standard lp(1) command is used to print Euro and Greek characters on LaserJet printers. The LaserJet
printers should have the resident Greek character/font set with the Euro symbol included. Current LaserJet
printer models with this support include the LaserJet 1220 and the LaserJet 2200.
Use the lp option -ocs12N to select the Greek character/font set. For example:
lp -d
printer_name -ocs12N -o other_options print_filename
Impact
The base Greek Euro offering (installed in all systems), requires approximately 14.2 MB of additional disk
space.
No additional memory is required for running in either the el_GR.iso88597 or el_GR.utf8 locales.
Compatibility
iconv conversion between ISO-88597 and Greek EBCDIC (CP 875) yield different results than in previous
releases. In 11i Version 1.6, these tables have been corrected to provide the correct conversion mappings.
It is recommended that all Greek-encoded legacy persistent data stored on previous versions of HP-UX be
converted to ISO-88597 from Greek EBCDIC before being moved to an 11i Version 1.6 system.