[Solved]Greek on archlinux

Question

Hello. i generated el.utf-8 encoding through locale.gen and set it as locale in rc.conf. everything seemed normal except that i cant type accented letters like "ή" or "ό" plus filenames typed in greek are shown as "????". what can i do to fix it?
Thank you very much
Last edited by Zapman (2012-04-05 10:22:58)

Answer 1

1)Edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment those lines:
el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8
el_GR ISO-8859-7
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
2)Run locale-gen.
3)Edit /etc/rc.conf:
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Athens"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-v16b" #it's Terminus font for console, just install terminus-font from community
CONSOLEMAP=
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
USECOLOR="yes"
On terminals under X, use Monospace or Dejavu Sans, or any other UTF8 font, or any font with iso8859-7 encoding
4) For keyboard layout toggle, i use
setxkbmap us,gr -option grp:alt_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll
in my ~/.xinitrc file. Install xorg-setxkbmap from extra. That way, i use Alt+CapsLock to switch layouts.
PS. I'm Greek also and with these settings, i have not trouble reading or writing Greek with any application or terminal.
Last edited by Thanoulis (2012-04-04 13:09:34)