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Spanish, spanish - Introduction to Spanish language support
DESCRIPTION
This reference page describes the codeset, locale, device, and other
kinds of support for the Spanish language.
Codesets
The operating system supports the following coded character sets (code‐
sets) for Spanish by means of locales, codeset converters, or both: ISO
8859-1 (ISO Latin-1)
ISO8859-1 is the string that represents this codeset in the
names of locales and codeset converters. See iso8859-1(5) for
more information. ISO 8859-15 (ISO Latin-9)
ISO8859-15 is the string that represents this codeset in the
names of locales and codeset converters. See iso8859-15(5) for
more information. UTF-16, UCS-4, and UTF-8
UTF-16, UCS-4, and UTF-8 are the strings that represent these
encoding formats in the names of locales and codeset converters.
See Unicode(5) for more information. PC code pages
cp437, cp850, and cp1250 are the strings that represent these
codesets in the names of codeset converters. See code_page(5)
for more information.
See i18n_intro(5) and l10n_intro(5) for introductory information on
codesets. See iconv_intro(5) for information on codeset converters and
how to use them.
Locales
The operating system supports the following Spanish locales:
es_ES.ISO8859-1, es_ES.ISO8859-15, and es_ES.UTF-8, for Spain
The es_ES.ISO8859-15 and es_ES.UTF-8 locales use the euro symbol for
currency. Because the es_ES.ISO8859-1 locale repertoire does not con‐
tain the euro symbol, it continues to use the peseta currency symbol.
You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to find out which
locales are installed on your system. See i18n_intro(5) for information
on setting locale from the operating system command line.
In the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), you need to set a locale by
setting the session language. To do this, from the Options menu of the
Login window, choose Language. Then, from the Language options menu,
choose a session language.
Keyboards
The operating system supports the following VT style and PC style key‐
boards with Spanish characters printed on the keys:
──────────────────────────────────────────────
VT Style (105/108 keys) PC Style (102 keys)
──────────────────────────────────────────────
LK411-AS LK471-AR
LK450-AS LK471-AS
LK461-AS LK47W-AS
LK46W-AS LK97W-AR
LK97W-AS
PCXAL-AS
PCXAL-FS
PCXAL-GS
PCXAL-KS
──────────────────────────────────────────────
For your keyboard to function correctly with your system, you must load
a keyboard mapping table (keymap) that is appropriate for your key‐
board's model and language. If you load a keymap that does not corre‐
spond to your keyboard's model and language, your keyboard behavior is
unpredictable. The label located on the bottom surface of a keyboard
usually specifies its model (five letter code) and language (two letter
code). See keyboard(5) for general information on keymaps and instruc‐
tions for loading them in different formats. The following tables sup‐
ply Spanish-specific information that you need when loading keymaps.
Selecting keymaps in xkb format:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
For VT Style For PC Style
Keyboard: Select: Keyboard: Select:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
LK411-AS lk411 LK471-AR lk471ar
LK450-AS lk450 LK471-AS lk471as or lk471
LK451-AS lk450 LK47W-AS lk471as or lk471
LK461-AS lk461 LK97W-AR lk97war
LK46W-AS lk461 LK97W-AS lk97was or lk97w
PCXAL-AS pcxalas
PCXAL-FS pcxalfs
PCXAL-GS pcxalgs
PCXAL-KS pcxalks
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Selecting keymaps in xmodmap format:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
For VT Style For PC Style
Keyboard: Select: Keyboard: Select:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
LK411-AS spanish lk411as LK471-AS spanish pcxalgs
LK450-AS spanish lk411as LK47W-AS spanish pcxalgs
LK451-AS spanish lk411as PCXAL-AS spanish pcxalgs
LK461-AS spanish lk411as PCXAL-FS spanish pcxalgs
LK46W-AS spanish lk411as PCXAL-GS spanish pcxalgs
PCXAL-KS spanish pcxalgs
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Keyboards can have keys with characters printed on both the left and
right half of the keycap. The way you set or use your keyboard to send
different sets of characters varies from one keyboard model to another.
Furthermore, your keyboard allows you to enter more characters than
those printed on the keycaps. See keyboard(5) for information on how to
enter characters.
Printers
PostScript fonts for languages supported by the ISO 8859-1 codeset are
printer resident. See i18n_printing(5) for a general discussion of your
printing options.
SEE ALSO
Commands: locale(1)
Others: code_page(5), euro(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5),
iconv_intro(5), iso8859-1(5), iso8859-15(5), keyboard(5),
l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)
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