How This Guide Is Organized

The chapters in this guide are organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, Oracle Solaris Internationalization Overview describes the new internationalization and localization features that are available in the current Oracle Solaris release.

• Chapter 2, General Internationalization Features provides introductory information on Code Set Independence (CSI), the locale database, the libc APIs, and other internationalization features.

• Chapter 3, Localization in the Oracle Solaris Environment provides information on the locales, fonts, and keyboards that are supported for use in the current Oracle Solaris operating system.

• Chapter 4, Supported Asian Locales describes the Japanese, Hindi, and Thai localization support that is offered in the current Oracle Solaris release.

• Chapter 5, Overview of UTF-8 Locale Support provides information on the available input methods and code conversion functionality supported for use in the current Oracle Solaris operating system.

• Chapter 6, Complex Text Layout describes the Complex Text Layout (CTL) extensions that enable Motif APIs to support writing systems that require complex transformations between logical and physical text representations. Writing systems that require complex transformations include Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.

• Chapter 7, Print Filter Enhancement With mp explains printing support with particular emphasis on the mp print filter.

• Appendix A, Compose and Dead Key Input describes the commonly used compose key sequences in the different input modes and key support.

• Appendix B, Language Support Features and Enhancements describes the language support enhancements introduced in Solaris with different versions.