French(5) — Macro Packages and Conventions
NAME
French, french − Introduction to French language support
DESCRIPTION
This reference page describes the coded character set (codeset), locale, device, and other support for the French language.
Codesets
The operating system supports the following codeset for French:
•ISO 8859-1 (ISO Latin 1)
ISO8859-1 is the string that represents this codeset in the names of locales and other system files.
See the i18n_intro(5) and l10n_intro(5) reference pages for introductory information on codesets.
French Locales
The operating system provides the following French locales for different countries:
•fr_BE.ISO8859-1 for Belgium
•fr_CA.ISO8859-1 for Canada
•fr_FR.ISO8859-1 for France
You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to find out if these locales are installed on your system. See i18n_intro(5) for information on setting locale.
In a windows environment, you also need to set the session language. The way you do this depends on which windows environment you are using:
•In the Common Desktop environment (CDE), use the Language menu accessed from the login window Options button.
•In the DECwindows environment, use the Language Option dialog box invoked from the Session Manager’s Options menu.
Keyboards
The operating system supports the following VT style and PC style keyboards with French characters printed on the keys:
| VT Style (105/108 keys) | PC Style (102 keys) |
| LK201-LP | LK442-PP |
| LK401-AP | LK444-AP |
| LK411-AP | LK471-AP |
| LK450-AP | LK47W-AP |
| LK451-AP | PCXAL-AP |
| LK461-AP | PCXAL-FP |
| LK46W-AP | PCXAL-GP |
| PCXAL-KP |
For your keyboard to function correctly with your system, you must load a keyboard mapping table (keymap) that is appropriate for your keyboard’s model and language. If you load a keymap that does not correspond 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 the keyboard(5) reference page for general information on keymaps and instructions for loading them in different formats. The following tables supply French-specific information that you need when loading keymaps.
Selecting keymaps in xkb format:
| For VT Style | For PC Style | ||
| Keyboard: | Select: | Keyboard: | Select: |
| LK201-LP | lk201 | LK442-PP | lk442 or lk44x |
| LK401-AP | lk401 | LK444-AP | lk444 or lk44x |
| LK411-AP | lk411 | LK471-AP | lk471ap or lk471 |
| LK450-AP | lk450 | LK47W-AP | lk471ap or lk471 |
| LK451-AP | lk450 | PCXAL-AP | pcxalap |
| LK461-AP | lk461 | PCXAL-FP | pcxalfp |
| LK46W-AP | lk461 | PCXAL-GP | pcxalgp |
| PCXAL-KP | pcxalkp |
Selecting keymaps in xmodmap format:
| For VT Style | For PC Style | ||
| Keyboard: | Select: | Keyboard: | Select: |
| LK201-LP | belgian french lk201lp dp | LK442-PP | french lk444kp |
| belgian french lk201lp tw | LK444-AP | french lk444kp | |
| LK401-AP | belgian french lk401ap dp | LK471-AP | french pcxalgp |
| belgian french lk401ap tw | LK47W-AP | french pcxalgp | |
| LK411-AP | french lk411ap | PCXAL-AP | french pcxalgp |
| LK450-AP | french lk411ap | PCXAL-FP | french pcxalgp |
| LK451-AP | french lk411ap | PCXAL-GP | french pcxalgp |
| LK461-AP | french lk411ap | PCXAL-KP | french pcxalgp |
| LK46W-AP | french lk411ap |
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. Refer to the keyboard(5) reference page for information on how to enter characters.
Printers
PostScript fonts for languages supported by the ISO 8859-1 codeset must be printer resident. The operating system does not provide fonts that you can manually or dynamically download to a printer.
Codeset Conversion
The following codeset converters are available for French:
•cp437_ISO8859-1 (PC code-page format to ISO Latin-1)
•cp437_UCS-2 (PC code-page format to UCS-2)
•cp437_UCS-4 (PC code-page format to UCS-4)
•cp437_UTF-8 (PC code-page format to UTF-8)
•cp850_ISO8859-1 (PC code-page format to ISO Latin-1)
•cp850_UCS-2 (PC code-page format to UCS-2)
•cp850_UCS-4 (PC code-page format to UCS-4)
•cp850_UTF-8 (PC code-page format to UTF-8)
•cp863_UCS-2 (PC code-page format to UCS-2)
•cp863_UCS-4 (PC code-page format to UCS-4)
•cp863_UTF-8 (PC code-page format to UTF-8)
•ISO8859-1_cp437 (ISO Latin-1 to PC code-page format)
•ISO8859-1_cp850 (ISO Latin-1 to PC code-page format)
•ISO8859-1_UCS-2 (ISO Latin-1 to UCS-2)
•ISO8859-1_UCS-4 (ISO Latin-1 to UCS-4)
•ISO8859-1_UTF-8 (ISO Latin-1 to UTF-8)
•UCS-2_cp437 (UCS-4 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-2_cp850 (UCS-2 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-2_cp863 (UCS-2 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-2_ISO8859-1 (UCS-2 to ISO Latin-1)
•UCS-4_cp437 (UCS-4 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-4_cp850 (UCS-4 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-4_cp863 (UCS-4 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-4_ISO8859-1 (UCS-4 to ISO Latin-1)
•UTF-8_cp437 (UTF-8 to PC code-page format)
•UTF-8_cp850 (UTF-8 to PC code-page format)
•UTF-8_cp863 (UTF-8 to PC code-page format)
•UTF-8_ISO8859-1 (UTF-8 to ISO Latin-1)
For more information about codeset converters, see the iconv_intro(5) reference page. For information on PC code pages, see code_page(5). For information on UCS-2, UCS-4, and UTF-8, see Unicode(5).
SEE ALSO
Commands: dl1152wrof(8), dl5100wrof(8), locale(1), lp(1), lpr(1), xset(1X), lpd(8), lprsetup(8)
Files: printcap(4)
Others: code_page(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5), iso8859-1(5), keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)
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