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Icelandic(5)
NAME
  Icelandic, icelandic - Introduction to Icelandic language support

DESCRIPTION
  This reference page describes the coded character set (codeset), locale,
  device, and other support for the Icelandic language.

  Codesets

  The operating system supports the following codesets for Icelandic 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 codeset converters. See Unicode(5) for more
       information.

    ·  PC code pages

       cp850, cp861, cp865, and cp1252 are the strings that represent these
       encoding fomats 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.

  Icelandic Locales

  The operating system provides the following Icelandic locales:

    ·  is_IS.ISO8859-1 and is_IS.ISO8859-15

    ·  is_IS.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 is_IS.ISO8859-15 and is_IS.UTF-8 locales support 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 PC-style keyboards with
  Icelandic characters printed on the keys:

  ___________________
  PC-Style (102 keys)
  ___________________
  LK471-CQ
  LK97W-CQ
  ___________________

  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 table supplies Icelandic-specific
  information that you need when loading keymaps.

  Selecting keymaps in xkb format or xmodmap format:

  ___________________________________________________
  For PC-Style Keyboard:   Select:
  ___________________________________________________
  LK471-CQ		   icelandic lk471cq or lk471
  LK97W-CQ		   icelandic lk97wcq or lk97w
  ___________________________________________________

  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.

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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