KEYBOARD LAYOUT CHANGE

[Peter Roege]

Hi

Does anyone knows howto change keyboard layout on HPUX 10.20 and
and ISO88591 what contry is this.
( I have to change to this )
Is it possible by any commands to see the current verssion ?

Peter Roege SIEMENS Denmark

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

ISO88591 is not a country. It's a character set. It's known also with the name "ISO Latin-1". HP has also developed a HP-Roman8 character set, and most HP-UXes have two versions of most country settings: one version uses HP-Roman8 and the other ISO88591 or something more appropriate to the country.

ISO88591 is widely used in western Europe, and for all practical purposes it's compatible with the usual MS-Windows character set. Unfortunately, HP-UX 10.20 seems to prefer Roman8 unless explicitly specified. Also, ISO88591 does not have the euro sign (the newer ISO885915 does).

There are several things that must agree for things to work. I'd start by checking your locale settings.

Type "locale" to see the current values, and "locale -a" to see all the possible values. There are several locale categories, like character set, sorting, money symbols and time display formats. The environment variable LANG sets the default for all the categories, which might not be what you want (it will try to use translated shell error messages, change the time format in "ls -l" listing and do many other things). I'd set only the category-specific variables, like LC_CTYPE (character set) and maybe LC_COLLATE (sorting order).

One HP-UX 10.20 here has the following locales available for Denmark:
da_DK.iso88591
da_DK.roman8
da_DK.iso885915@euro

(It seems this 10.20 has the euro support patches installed).

To use ISO88591, you'd need the commands

LC_CTYPE=da_DK.iso88591
export LC_CTYPE

on a Bourne-like shell, or

setenv LC_CTYPE da_DK.iso88591

on a csh-like shell.

In any terminal session, you need to ensure that the stty settings allow 8-bit characters
(stty cs8 -istrip).

The rest depends on how you're accessing your HP-UX. If you're using a character terminal (vt100, HP 700/96 or the like) check the terminal's setup menu.

If you're logging in locally at a HP-UX workstation, check the login dialog for country/language options. You might also need to change the workstation's keyboard configuration, which may require a reboot. See the manuals of your workstation (available at docs.hp.com) for more information - my knowledge about workstation configuration (as opposed to servers) is probably obsolete.

If you're using a PC to access your HP-UX remotely, it depends on the terminal or X emulator software you're using.

[bhavin asokan]

hi,

see the following link.The links provides a good solution.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=33906

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x2ac4cf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1102411948023+28353475

regds,

[Peter Roege]

thanks alot for that very good explain off that.
I will try to work on your proposal.

Peter

PS by any change do you know any thing about INGRES database server ?