Can files/directories have Greek characters? If I select English when install Linux
 

Can files/directories have Greek characters? If I selected English when installed Linux?

Hi,

You can have files/dirs with Greek characters, but it might be difficult to manipulate them (copy, move, open etc), especially from CLI.
You can find instructions for using Greek in CLI here (it's written for debian, but it can be adapted for others distros)

Regards

Greek characters in Linux file names
 

The short answer is "yes". For instance on my laptop I can make a file with Greek letters:

shane@shane-asus-laptop:/tmp$ touch Ελλάδα.txt
shane@shane-asus-laptop:/tmp$ ls -l Ελλάδα.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 shane shane 0 2010-09-15 08:01 Ελλάδα.txt

I don't have any Greek localization installed, just English and Dutch:

shane@shane-asus-laptop:/tmp$ locale -a
C
en_AG
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NG
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
nl_AW
nl_BE.utf8
nl_NL.utf8
POSIX

BTW, I just cut & pasted the characters from Wikipedia. There are other ways of inputting characters that you don't have defined on your keyboard, like the "Applications -> Accessories -> Character Map" utility that I use sometimes in Ubuntu, but that was easiest for a quick test.

Yes, as long as you use a locale that uses a character encoding that is a superset of Greek or includes Greek as part of it. The character encodings that fulfill such condition are those based on UNICODE, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. The former is used mostly in Linux distros, the latter is used in MS Windows.

So answering your question, if you choose an English locale that uses UTF-8 as character encoding (say, en_US.utf8), you'll be able to use Greek characters (and Chinese, Cyrillic, whatever). If you have already created the directories/files under a different encoding, you can fix the damage using a utility such as convmv.