Siemens SINUMERIK Commissioning Manual page 631

Font
Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
Example
Incorrect coding could have the following consequences:
Let us suppose that you wrote the Russian word for "NO" ("HET") using Latin letters instead
of "HET" using Cyrillic letters. Initially you would see no difference. However, a search for
"нет" in lower case letters with the search option "Ignore uppercase/lowercase letters" would
not find the incorrectly coded spelling.
Keyboard assignment for Greek/Cyrillic font
For this reason, the keyboard assignments for the Greek and Cyrillic fonts have been
designed in such a way that the Latin letters are not available at all, not even via AltGr key
combinations. These keyboard assignments have normally only two levels (standard and
SHIFT).
Keyboard assignment for the Russian font
In the Russian keyboard assignment, there are also some ASCII special characters which
are missing, such as #$[]{}"|~&.
For these languages it makes sense, therefore, to use Word files with two languages, as
described in Section "Multi-language Word files".
Note
• Switch the keyboard to Latin only if this is absolutely necessary! When doing so, do not
• Find out whether and to what extent certain German, English or international
Generating target language texts (TX2)
Commissioning Manual, 11/2006, 6FC5397-0DP10-0BA0
3.8 Special considerations when working with Greek and Cyrillic texts
Name
P, p
Ρ, ρ
Р, р
H, h
Η, η
Н, н
switch over for individual letters, but only for complete words and sentences.
Never use words with mixed codings!
abbreviations (e.g. DIN/ISO) may or must be written using Latin fonts, or whether a
conversion (ДИН/ИСО) is more appropriate, according to the conventions of the country
in question.
The key assignment for combinations, such as Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z, Alt-A, etc. normally
follow the US keyboard assignment.
Meaning
Latin letter P
Greek letter RHO
Cyrillic letter ER
Latin letter H
Greek letter ETA
Cyrillic letter EN
Input of Text
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