How to change the name Figure to greek Εικόνα

Question

I would like to change the name "Σχήμα" to "Εικόνα" as you can see in the screenshot. Without babel it would be easy since I change the document element Figure to other word. How can I do it in babel. I tried \addto\captionsenglish{\renewcommand{\figurename}{Εικόνα.}. But it can not do it. My code is

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=20cm]{PictureA.jpg}
\centering \selectlanguage{greek}
\caption{Αρχική κατάσταση. Μετωπιαία όψη.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Untested, but for Greek you would expect something like \addto\captionsgreek{\renewcommand{\figurename}{Εικόνα.}} and not \captionsenglish. — moewe, Aug 29 '21 at 09:21
...I can even think why I was trying with captionsenglish..thank you — Petros Mourouzis, Aug 29 '21 at 09:23
This is the same with the listfigures?\addto\captionsgreek{\renewcommand{\listoffigures}{Κατάλογος Εικόνων}} — Petros Mourouzis, Aug 29 '21 at 10:16
\listoffigures is the entire command that prints the list of figures. \listfigurename is the heading that you get from \listoffigures. See the list in https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82993/35864. — moewe, Aug 29 '21 at 10:19
\def\figurename{...} should handle both the \caption and LOF, but you have to make the change AFTER babel does it (\AtBeginDocument?). — John Kormylo, Aug 29 '21 at 17:18
@JohnKormylo In multilingual documents redefining captions with \AtBeginDocument is not correct, because the default string is restored when the language is selected. — Javier Bezos, Sep 06 '21 at 07:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '21 at 07:37

Currently (≥ 3.51) the best option is \setlocalecaption, as shown:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\setlocalecaption{greek}{figure}{Εικόνα}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=20cm]{PictureA.jpg}
\centering \selectlanguage{greek}
\caption{Αρχική κατάσταση. Μετωπιαία όψη.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

This generates the following caption:

How to change the name Figure to greek Εικόνα

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