JavaStation Client Software Guide

Localization Properties

The table below lists properties strictly related to localization.


Note -

The User Properties in Table 4-4 and javaos.mountlist in Table 4-1 are also required for localization.


Table 4-6 JavaOS Localization Properties

Property Name 

Default Value 

Description  

javaos.font.properties.home

/FONTS

The local path name of a directory that contains a lib subdirectory. The font.properties files are read from this lib directory. The javaos.mountlist property is typically used to associate some server path with the /FONTS directory to enable the JavaOS software to load and use fonts from a server. For more information, see "Setting Mount Directories ".

javaos.im.compose.deadkeys

false

This property changes the following keys into accent 

keys: '(single quote) "(double quote) `(grave accent) and 

^(circumflex). Use this property if your keyboard is a 

U.S. keyboard, you are not setting the javaos.kbd property, and you want to produce accented characters

for ISO Latin locales. If set to true, the above keys do not produce a value of their own, but cause the next key pressed to be an accented character. For example, pressing ` plus "a" produces á. If this property is false, these keys generate their expected values. For more information on this and the following three properties, see "Enabling Special Characters on the U.S. Keyboard".

javaos.im.compose_arISO8859_6 Enables the U.S. keyboard to produce Arabic input. The Ctrl-t key sequence toggles the keyboard state between Arabic and U.S. ASCII modes. A status window displays the current mode.
javaos.im.compose_iwISO8859_8 Enables the U.S. keyboard to produce Hebrew input. The Ctrl-t key sequence toggles the keyboard state between Hebrew and U.S. ASCII modes. A status window displays the current mode.
javaos.im.compose_thTIS620 Enables the U.S. keyboard to produce Thai input. The Ctrl-t key sequence toggles the keyboard state between Thai and U.S. ASCII modes. A status window displays the current mode.

javaos.im.url

null 

A semicolon-delimited list of the Solaris machines running the language engines to be used by JavaStation computers. A Microsoft Windows95 or Microsoft NT system can also be used if an Internet/Intranet Input Method Protocol (IIIMP) server from Sun for the PC server is installed on it. Set as follows:  

iiimp://hostname:port;hostname:port...

where: 

  • hostname is a system running a language engine

  • port is the port at which the engine is located. By default, JavaStation computers use port 9010. For more information, see "Setting the Input Method ".

javaos.loginLocaleList

en_US

A semicolon-separated list of the locales to be presented as choices to the user at login. A locale is defined using one of the ISO-639 standard two-letter codes that define user.language followed by an underscore character "_" and one of the ISO-3166 standard two-letter codes that define user.country. For example:

-djavaos.loginLocaleList=\ en_US;fr_FR;ja_JP;zh_CN;zh_TW

For more information, see "Modifying the Languages Displayed at Login".

javaos.kbd

null 

By default, the JavaOS software assumes the keyboard is a U.S. keyboard. To enable a different keyboard, use the syntax javaos.kbd=keyboard. Possible values for keyboard are provided in "Adding a Keyboard".

javaos.im.lookup.button

false

This property controls how the JavaStation user selects characters when using a Korean, Japanese, or Chinese input method. If false, when the list of candidate characters is displayed, letters are used to indicate each choice, and the user selects a choice by typing the letter. If true, letters are replaced with buttons so that the user clicks on a button to pick a choice. Note that enabling this option will negatively impact user input performance. For more information, see "Setting the Input Method ".

javaos.im.status.fixpopup

false 

Setting this property to true enables a pop-up window with input method status information. For more information, see "Setting the Input Method ".

file.encoding

8859_1

This system property sets the character set to be used when files are saved. By default it is set to the 8859-1 character set (Roman alphabet). Supported character sets are listed in Table 10-5.

doc.url null

This system property enables JavaStation users to access HotJava Browser documentation. It should be set as follows: 

-Ddoc.url=file:/REMOTE/hotjava

HotJava Browser automatically locates the document translation for the current locale. 

This property is not applicable for any JavaStation application other than HotJava Browser.