NAME

Hungarian, hungarian − Introduction to Hungarian language support

DESCRIPTION

This reference page describes the codeset, locale, device, and other kinds of support for the Hungarian language. 

Codesets

The operating system supports the following coded character sets (codesets) for Hungarian by means of locales, codeset converters, or both:

       •ISO 8859-2 (ISO Latin−2)

ISO8859-2 is the string that represents this codeset in the names of locales and codeset converters. See iso8859−2(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

cp852 and cp1250 are the strings that represent these encoding formats 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 a discussion of codeset converters and how to use them. 

Locales

The operating system provides the following Hungarian locales:

       •hu_HU.ISO8859-2

This locale also exists under the name hu_HU.ISO8859-2@ucs4 for use by applications that need to convert file data in ISO8859-2 format to UCS-4 process code to perform certain kinds of  character operations. 

       •hu_HU.UTF-8

UTF-8 locales support file code and internal process code according to ISO 10646 and Unicode standards. File code, in UTF-8 locales, may include characters encoded in more than 1 byte; therefore, use these locales in applications that can process multibyte data. The UTF-8 locale supports the euro monetary symbol; see euro(5). 

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 a 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 keyboards with Hungarian characters printed on the keys:

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 keyboard(5) for general information on keymaps and instructions for loading them in different formats.  The following tables supply Hungarian-specific information that you need when loading keymaps. 

Selecting keymaps in xkb format:

Selecting keymaps in xmodmap format:

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

See i18n_printing(5) for a discussion of printer-support options. The PostScript fonts available for languages supported by the ISO 8859-2 codeset are listed in iso8859-2(5). 

SEE ALSO

Commands: locale(1)

Others: code_page(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5), iso8859-2(5), keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)

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