Greek Accented Vowels Howto (Ελληνικοι χαρακτήρες)

[Deathwing00]

1. Introduction

Why of this document?

This document was created to solve the trouble caused to users when they tried to type greek characters inside the X enviroinment. This document is mainly directed to greek users who would like to be able to type correctly greek characters in their favorite applications.

2. System Configuration

Keyboard Configuration on X

The first thing we need to do is to configure the X server in order to set the appropiate keyboard layout. We will use a dual layout, as it is necessary to have a latin-character layout in order to be able to interact correctly with the system. So we edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and we set up they keyboard as shown bellow.

Code listing 2.1: Keyboard Layout Configuration in /etc/X11/XF86Config

[feliguelo]

Thanks for the information. Now I have an Hellenic keyboard with accents and everything but the problem is that now I don't have the accents for Castellano (Spanish) that is my native language.

The thing is that I have to choose between Hellenic or Castellano when I define LC_CTYPE, depending on its value I get accents in one language or in the other.
I have tried this:

[Deathwing00]

Yo tambiιn uso el teclado en castellano y tampoco he encontrado forma de hacer funcionar los acentos a la vez en castellano y en griego a la vez... estamos en ello, cuando sepamos algo te lo contaremos

[feliguelo]

It is curious how difficult can be certain things in GNU/Linux when it can manage the real complex task in a easier and more efficient way than other OS.

I'm also searching in maling lists, forums and google, let's see what we can get. By now what I have is a button in the KDE launching bar

[Deathwing00]

[feliguelo]

[gakrivas]

Hi,

I can write in Greek, both in consoles and from X. I can't use the accent from X, though I can use the accent from a console.

I suspect that my /etc/profile is totally ignored. Maybe I need a command to be executed upon login?

Thanks. My /etc/profile:

# /etc/profile:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/profile,v 1.23 2003/04/29 21:23:18 azarah Exp $

if [ -e "/etc/profile.env" ]
then
. /etc/profile.env
fi

# 077 would be more secure, but 022 is generally quite realistic
umask 022

if [ `/usr/bin/whoami` = 'root' ]
then
# Do not set PS1 for dumb terminals
if [ "$TERM" != 'dumb' ] && [ -n "$BASH" ]
then
export PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'
fi
export PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:${ROOTPATH}"
else
# Do not set PS1 for dumb terminals
if [ "$TERM" != 'dumb' ] && [ -n "$BASH" ]
then
export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'
fi
export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH}"
fi
unset ROOTPATH

if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]
then
export INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc"
fi

# Extract the value of EDITOR
[ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR="`. /etc/rc.conf 2>/dev/null; echo $EDITOR`"
[ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR="`. /etc/conf.d/basic 2>/dev/null; echo $EDITOR`"
[ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR="/bin/nano"
export EDITOR

export XAUTHORITY="${HOME}/.Xauthority"
PATH=/usr/lib/ccache/bin:"${PATH}"
export LC_CTYPE=el_GR@euro.UTF-8
export LC_COLLATE=el_GR@euro.UTF-8

[Kosmas]