Swedish(5) — Macro Packages and Conventions
NAME
Swedish, swedish − Introduction to Swedish language support
DESCRIPTION
This reference page describes the codeset, locale, device, and other kinds of support for the Swedish language.
Codesets
The operating system supports the following coded character set (codeset) for Swedish:
•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 iso8859-1(5) reference page for information on the ISO Latin 1 codeset. See the i18n_intro(5) and l10n_intro(5) reference pages for introductory information on codesets.
Locales
The operating system supports the following Swedish locale:
•sv_SE.ISO8859-1, for Sweden
You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to find out if this locale is 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 Swedish characters printed on the keys:
| VT Style (105/108 keys) | PC Style (102 keys) |
| LK201-LM | LK442-RA |
| LK201-NM | LK444-AM |
| LK401-AM | LK471-AF |
| LK411-AM | LK47W-AF |
| LK450-AM | PCXAL-AM |
| LK451-AM | PCXAL-CA |
| LK461-AM | PCXAL-JA |
| LK46W-AM | PCXAL-MA |
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 Swedish-specific information that you need when loading keymaps.
Selecting keymaps in xkb format:
| For VT Style | For PC Style | ||
| Keyboard: | Select: | Keyboard: | Select: |
| LK201-LM | lk201 | LK442-RA | lk442 or lk44x |
| LK201-NM | lk201 | LK444-AM | lk444 or lk44x |
| LK401-AM | lk401 | LK471-AF | lk471af or lk471 |
| LK411-AM | lk411 | LK47W-AF | lk471af or lk471 |
| LK450-AM | lk450 | PCXAL-AM | pcxalja |
| LK451-AM | lk450 | PCXAL-CA | pcxalca |
| LK461-AM | lk461 | PCXAL-JA | pcxalja |
| LK46W-AM | lk461 | PCXAL-MA | pcxalma |
Selecting keymaps in xmodmap format:
| For VT Style | For PC Style | ||
| Keyboard: | Select: | Keyboard: | Select: |
| LK201-LM | swedish lk201lm dp | LK442-RA | swedish lk444ma or |
| finnish lk444ca | |||
| swedish lk201lm tw | LK444-AM | swedish lk444ma or | |
| finnish lk444ca | |||
| LK201-NM | swedish lk201nm dp | LK471-AF | swedish pcxalja |
| swedish lk201nm tw | LK47W-AF | swedish pcxalja | |
| LK401-AM | swedish lk401am dp | PCXAL-AM | swedish pcxalja |
| swedish lk401am tw | PCXAL-CA | swedish pcxalja | |
| LK411-AM | swedish lk411am | PCXAL-JA | swedish pcxalja |
| LK450-AM | swedish lk411am | PCXAL-MA | swedish pcxalja |
| LK451-AM | swedish lk411am | ||
| LK461-AM | swedish lk411am | ||
| LK46W-AM | swedish lk411am |
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 Swedish:
•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)
•cp865_UCS-2 (PC code-page format to UCS-2)
•cp865_UCS-4 (PC code-page format to UCS-4)
•cp865_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-2 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-2_cp850 (UCS-2 to PC code-page format)
•UCS-2_cp865 (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_cp865 (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_cp865 (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: 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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