Bug 82096

I don't think that Greek is one of the available languages in the installer. 
Are you sure that you chose Greek language and not Greek keyboard?  

I have modified the keyboard list in keyboard_models.py to say:

'gr'   : [_('Greek'), 'el,us', 'pc105', '', 'grp:ctrl_shift_toggle' ],

This should make sure that grp:ctrl_shift_toggle gets set.  I think that this
should take care of the X windows part of your request.

What does the grp_led:scroll option do?

Also, can you tell me what the SYSFONT in /etc/sysconfig/i18n should be set to
for Greek?

1) Greek is available in additional languages step of installation process.
So after installation you can choose greek as default system language(you have
to install some compatible with greek fonts before you do that)

2) What does the grp_led:scroll option do? 
it lights scroll lock led when you press Ctrl+Shift and indicates that you can
write greek
if you press again the combination you return to latin character set and light
goes out from Scroll lock
lead...

3) i ll reply about this (SYSFONT) later

 ctrl-shift is a bad compination for switching between languages. Many
applications use it (most notably gnome-terminal) so it can't be used for
something like that. A good choice would be alt-shift as it seems to be used by
most people in Greece and I haven't yet found an app that needs it.
 That means that grp:ctrl_shift_toggle should rather be grp:alt_shift_toggle. The   
grp_led:scroll is also a very usefull addition.

 The 'gr'   : [_('Greek'), 'el,us', 'pc105', '', 'grp:ctrl_shift_toggle' ], will
do the trick even if greek is just selected as second language, right?

Steve: As some users reported in another bug report, ctrl-shift is a bad
combination.  Yesterday I updated rhpl to use "grp:shift_toggle" to switch the
keymaps.  So pressing both Shift keys at the same time should switch the keymaps.

I'm going to change the component of this report to "rhpl" since that's where
the list of keyboards comes from.  

frolix: this was kind of two bug reports in one.  I think that I've fixed the
keyboard component of this bug with rhpl-0.92-1.  Please open a new bug against
redhat-config-language if you can tell me what the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/i18n needs to look like in order to handle Greek properly.

Actually, I'm not even sure that we have the proper console character sets to
print Greek fonts on the console.

QA, please verify that the latest rhpl writes out an XF86Config file that loads
both Greek and US keymaps and that pressing both Shift buttons allows you to
switch between them.  The Scroll Lock light on the keyboard should signify that
the toggle has happened.

Created attachment 90219 [details]
Greek on console with font iso07u-16 (filename shown in screenshot)

This is the font that I personally see suitable for displaying Greek on the
console.

All the following are for Greek on Console, not X11.

A. There are proper Greek fonts already in Red Hat Linux (8.0), in the package
kbd.

For example: {/lib/kbd/consolefonts/}iso07u-16.psfu.gz

B. The choice for switching between English and Greek is different between
individuals, typically based on what they learnt in earlier packages.
My favorite is Alt-Shift (both left buttons) as it is already used by default.
'loadkeys gr' does this.

Check attachment to see how the above font looks like.

I used earlier my obsolete account. I can be contacted at this e-mail.

Simos Xenitellis

Brent
verified in phobe 2 (mixed with several updates of phoebe3)
It works but by default comes in greek character map. 
This may confuse some users that they dont know that shift+shift
is needed in order to  switch to english character map,
So i suggest to change if it is possible the default setting to :
default english map and
by pressing shift+shift to switch to Greek map.

(shift+shift) in my previous post 
i mean  left shift + right shift

-the issue is for xkb and greek settings is (partially) resolved
-the issue that arized from this fix is described here:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100773

For default greek console fonts and console settings
i will open a new bug for severn(beta1)